Mann Bawara / मन बावरा  (Hindi, Hardcover, Ruby Ahluwalia)

Just when I thought I was about to get a grip on my life, I had a knock on my door. A knock that changed the course of my life. Who knew that craving for adventures would take me through a roller coaster ride, which at times may topple my life upside down? And who knew my craving for love would put me on my deathbed? Going deeper, I sought answers and a pattern of questioning the self appeared: • How did my urge to nurture others lead me to get undernourished to an extent that I created a hollow inside me? • How did I understand that my suppressed self led me to abuse my body, soul and mind? • How a catastrophic experience like cancer made me see the splits in my soul and allowed me to mend it for myself. The blossoming of the pure self, then losing it and finally mending it – sewing it back, bit by bit, by self-analysis towards an even stronger self and a free spirit is the ride of this story. We all have our own cancers, even if they have not become tumors yet. How can we heal ourselves and come out of our self-created pits and discover our infinite potential is the purpose of telling this story.