AAGAZ  (Hindi, Paperback, Dr. Aradhana Bhaskar)

"Agaaz," a collection of poems by Dr. Aradhana Bhaskar is her maiden anthology. The collection comprises of poems of all that makes a fascinating reading. Man's inhumanity to man has always haunted her, and this permeates her poetry to a great extent implicitly or explicitly. She sounds like a rebel against male chauvinism in some of the poems of this collection. She writes this poetry in everyday prattle, and the language of her poems are very simple and lucid. Most of the poems of this collection are written in blank verse as she believes that verse is but only a raiment to poetry. In a world, increasingly marked by intellectual surrender to the tyranny of state power, Dr. Aradhana's poetry demonstrates artistic integrity and the role of the poet as a public intellectual.