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BY PULKIT MOHAN SINGLA

"Roses & Rhymes" - A success story.

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"ROSES & RHYMES" - A SUCCESS STORY PressRelease by PULKIT MOHAN SINGLA

Roses & Rhymes, an anthology of Poetry on love and life was launched this January 21st, in Lodhi Garden, New Delhi. It was a dream come true for the editors of Impact005 who on a virtual platform came together and turned this dream to a reality. The Book was beautifully designed by Pulkit Mohan Singla, Joint Editor Hall of Poets, and received a lot of appreciation for the same.

The Book soon reached Amazon's No. 1 best-sellers and later among the Top 10's in poetry. Within a week of it's launch Roses & Rhymes hit the out of stock target, with only Limited Editions available now, with the Editor.

"It just happened, all of a sudden , with a lightening speed. Time was less and one by one, day after the other we were climbing steps to eventually reach there and finally we reached." , says Dr. Prerna Singla, Editor Impact 005.

The success story of Roses & Rhymes started when in a quest to do an anthology project, five complete strangers from different parts of India came together on a social Networking Platform. Dr. Prerna Singla, Rupam Goswami, Waseem A Malla, Kalpana B Shah and Farha Naz, the 5 editors founded the group named "Impact 005" and the only thing keeping them connected was a phone and an aim.

Dr. Prerna Singla, Editor­in­chief of Hall of Poets; Rupam Goswami, Editor­in­chief ­ The Guwahatian ; Waseem A Malla, Founding editor of eMag. Fragrance ;

Kalpana B Shah, Freelance writer and author of Kalpana's Imagination; Farha naz, Management Post­Grad Human Resources working in IIT Allahabad.

Working started with long process of Blind selections done to keep it honest and transparent. The poems were compiled randomly with author names removed, were read through and voted five times by each of the editors. The poems with maximum votes were then selected. This way there was no discrimination on the basis of name, caste, religion, region, acquaintance or any other basis. After the primary selections were done, the poems were compiled, this time with their authors named and each poem went through five staged editing process. It was only after that, that the final manuscript was prepared.

The time was short and other chores demanded attention as well. "Work was to be done, anyhow, so we took turns one by one.", says Dr. Prerna Singla.

The enthusiasm with the first project was so much that nothing ordinary would satisfy the editors taste for book design and so at last when everything else failed, they asked Pulkit Mohan Singla to design a few templates for their book and then finally reached a point where they had a common majority for a design in sweet purple tailored by Pulkit specially suiting the theme of their Anthology. And so, the design of Roses & Rhymes became a reality. "Great cover!!..one of the best I have seen till now..This will certainly get an international boost.", said Daipayan Nair, Dr. Prerna's close friend and contributing author of Roses & Rhymes.

The Book was attracting positivity and love of the readers but the launch was still far.

A good number of Pre-bookings were made by the readers. Behind the curtains, the Editors were insomniac, working almost all night Proof reading, tallying, line by line, word by word, again and again each of the verse to make sure there was no mistake.

The launch was due in five days and the book was still being proof-read. "The tension was high. My family and friends regularly complained that I have no time for them and I was really short of time at that moment. But I had full support from my family to an extent that my brother was cooking so that I can keep working.", says Dr. Prerna Singla.

The team of Impact had already started the promotions. Open invitations for the Launch were sent everywhere on the social media platforms as well as personally to near and dear ones. A formal launch was planned, but then later changed to an innovative launch in a natural ambience where the roof was the wide sky, the Sun was the shining lights, the grass was the carpeted floor, the chirping birds was the beautiful music, the cool winter breeze was the Air Conditioner... Yes! The venue finally selected was Lodhi Garden in New delhi. The chief guests Kulpreet Yadav, Santosh bakaya, Yaseen Anwar and Sujata Parashar graced the event with their presence. The event was hosted by Serene Publishers and Dr. Waseem A. Malla (Editor R&R) Pic Courtesy: Serene Publishers

At Lodhi Garden, New Delhi

Launch of ROSES AND RHYMES, LODI GARDENS [21 JANUARY 2016] - a beautiful experience as described by Dr. Santosh Bakaya While butterflies of myriad hues – the common tiger, the blue tiger, the common crow, flitted around with a reckless abandon, the leaves rustled congratulatory greetings, and a magnanimous sun added its warmth to the warmth spread by wonderful people like Umashankar Yadav, owner of Serene Publishers. Roses and Rhymes was launched amidst a lot of boisterous bonhomie, and chirpy camaraderie. There was poetry in the air.

But alas, some melodious notes, namely, Kalpana Shah and DrPrerna Singla were missing- and that, needless to say, was intensely jarring. I had been keenly looking forward to meeting them.

The Incredible Woman of India [2015], Author of the Ballad of Bapu, Winner of the international Reuel Prize for Literature [2014]

Besides this impeccably designed book ROSES & RHYMES, the cover of 'Roshni hai magar andhera hai' , was also launched and Life Nama, a bi- lingual anthology of poetry was re-launched.

Pic Courtesy: Serene Publishers

At Launch Of Roses & Rhymes with Editors & contributing poets of Roses & Rhymes, chief guests and Serene Publishers

It was at Gate no. 1 that I met a young girl, who, I, later came to know was Manisha Bhatia, a charming poetess and marketing professional from ,Faridabad , Haryana , whose intensely poignant poem , VAPASI ,forms part of Life Nama .

The feisty birds applauded, the clouds drifted lower in curiosity, the cool breeze sang away, serenading us, and the tombs of Lodi Gardens watched on with a cool detachment. It was indeed a unique book launch, where nature reflected the happy glow on the faces of the audience.

It was wonderful meeting Sujata Parashar, Yaseen Anwar, Kulpreet Yadav, who enlightened us with nuggets of their literary experience and swamped us with their charm. Kulpreet Yadav graciously gave me an autographed copy of his novel, The Girl who loved a Pirate, which I am about to finish reading.

I had a wonderful interaction with Bushra Razaak , and clicked lots of pics together .

And yes, it was great meeting you too, Angsuman Das .

Dr Wa See M, who had all along been running around like a spinning top, steering the guests towards the venue, trying to make them comfortable, finally stopped spinning and turned poetic , and we listened, mesmerized by the magicality of his exquisite gazal .

Bushra Razaak (On the left) with Dr. Santosh Bakaya (On the right)

Pic Courtesy: Serene Publishers

Pic Courtesy: Serene Publishers

I noticed the twittering birds stop in mid-tweet, tilt their tiny heads, and listen in rapt attention as Pallavi Varma PK, who had come all the way from Calicut with her wonderful family, read out her poem THE BROKEN CAGE. Pallavi varma PK (contributing poet in Roses & Rhymes) with her family

“Alas! I am done. I am done And here I go, in search of a cage which could fetch me their love – a caged love!” As she finished, I could almost hear the applausive chirps from the avian fraternity.

Sufficiently enriched by the mental fodder, we were now graciously lead by the charming hosts towards India Habitat center where we would be treated to some more fodder – this time to satiate the hunger pangs.

It was time to launch into eating.

I had already started feeling nostalgic.

When I started from Bangalore, I had pictured the event in mind. From the mails I had received, I could get just a faint idea about it. A very formal, wellplanned event, I thought it was. I was prepared for the long hours of speech from the presiding writers. I reached Delhi the night before, and with least expectations of being noticed in the crowd the next day, I went to sleep. I came early to the venue owing to the fact that it is a must-visit place, especially during the winter. No one other than Dr. Waseem was there. I was perplexed. I had come with my family. Since the uncertainty about the function was even more this time, we went for a walk. The event was scheduled at 12.30, and we still had couple of hours left.

Pallavi Varma PK (Contributing Poet ­ Roses & Rhymes)

I could meet up with a couple of other co-poets by then. None of us had any clue on how or when the event would happen. We waited, but not for long. We were guided to a totally amazing place inside the garden. Totally contradictory to our expectations, the lucky 20 were invited to be seated on the carpets. The most adorable, renowned writers and poets sat along.

I was mesmerized by the way the launch was happening. Most importantly, I got a chance to talk to them, know the depths of poetry, which would not have happened if it was a formal event. I felt blessed to have got a chance to recite my own poem, before the reverend guests

FEEDBACK ON ROSES & RHYMES LAUNCH EVENT

BY BUSHRA ALVI RAZZACK

Bushra Alvi Razzack Writer, Editor, Translator & Poet Founder – Delhi by Verse

When Waseem Malla invited me for the launch of Roses and Rhymes, I did not think twice before committing to attend. After all, who would give up the chance of being in the beautiful environs of Delhi's Lodi Gardens on a beautiful winter afternoon.

Also, I was enthralled with the idea of a launch event held in the open. I just had to go! The spot chosen was a secluded one, tucked away in a corner of the gardens without the disturbance of tourists and noisy vistors So there we were, under the sun, upon the grass and among the flowers with butterflies and birds flitting around and adding to the ambience of the afternoon.

The idea of having a launch event in the open was unique and I must congratulate Mr Umashankar Yadav and the entire team from Serene Publishers who came all the way from Ahmedabad to Delhi to put together such a delightful event. Their, originality, humility, graciousness and hospitality are worthy mentioning.

Roses and Rhymes and Lifenama, two poetry anthologies were launched against the backdrop of Muhammad Shah Sayyid’s Tomb. The cover page of Ramakant Yadav's Roshni Hai magar Andhera Hai was also unveiled.

The audience was enriched by the presence of Santosh Bakaya, Yaseen Anwer, Kulpreet Yadav and Sujata Parashar, stars in the field of poetry and writing, who shared their insights into the world of writing and poetry. An interesting discussion took place as we debated whether pyaar and mohabbat were one and the same emotion or if they differed in their intensity. Waseem Malla then went on to enlighten us about the seven stages of love and how it transcends from platonic to the physical and then spiritual love.

As is the norm, this book launch also gave a chance to the poets, many of whom had come from afar, to read their poems in front of an appreciative audience. I was absolutely impressed with the quality of poems in the anthology and the passionate recitations. Waseem Malla held the gathering spellbound with the rendering of his ghazal, Bichhadne waale bata ki karna hai raabton ko bahaal kaise. Manisha Bhatia’s poem Waapsi, based on the Peshawar attack of Dec 16, 2014 was so heart wrenching it made me moist eyed. The use of the word ‘tabut’ (coffin) ‘Yun to tabut mein akele lagta hai dar’ left me with a feeling of helplessness and despair that stuck on for days. Good poetry is one that creates images in your mind as you read and touches you at many levels and the poems in the book do just that.

I look forward to reading all the other poems at leisure. My very best wishes to the publishers and all the participating poets. More power to your pen!

Cheers!

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Anca Mihaela Bruma Author - The Light Of Our Beingness Interviewee

Dear Anca Mihaela Bruma, First of all congratulations for your book “The light of our BeingnessI am that you are”. We wish you a huge success.

The Light of Our Beingness

Q1 Tell us more about your book. Basically what is it all about and how you aim to make an impact on the world by way of your poems and ART? Answer: “The Light of Our Beingness – I Am That You Are!” it is a collection of poetry together with some coloured paintings by the Romanian painter Dorina Costras Through the art of writing I experience wonder during my continuous attempt to grasp the truth, however there is no ultimate truth to be achieved. The book emphasizes the idea of interconnectedness, achieved through spiritual intelligence and consciousness. Being open to wonder and awe, you may reach for possibilities of being or I shall say being-ness, as I see art as primarily an experience to openness, cherishing the sacred wonder, our authentic core. The writings through their aesthetic patterns reveal and underline that multiplicity is organized into wholeness, completeness. I consider any form of art as liberating, and a way to respond to your core, an artistic exuberance and a continuous process of unconditionally loving yourself through empathy and harmonious inter-subjectivity.

“I am not seeking the finding as I do not find the seeking…

Still…

You see yourself outside you!

I see you inside myself… (…)

Future selves or… secret second selves, connecting derivative patterns and mathematical probabilities in a Pythagorean sphere of harmony.” (“When I found the Love Footprints”)

Q2 As you write about your poetic works, you mention that they are “Mystic” writes, or more of touches the spiritual side of the being. What is “Your” definition of Spiritual awakening?? How would you say a person is spiritually awakened?

KNOW thyself! Being aware of your own self, your own essence, of the profound mystery, the ineffable, knowing beyond the knowledge, becoming aware of realities within yourself, shifting from externality towards internality and allowing yourself to explore the multi­dimensionality of your own being, expanding your human potentiality and fulfilling life in every aspect: “No meta­logic… nor extra­language…

You rose above the canon of False and True passing through the song and rhythm of your own life (…)” (Agape) The human brain is used to receive defined explanations for features we are able to see/observe, however, if these features are opened to various interpretations and new assigned values across wide landscapes of reality, then thinking, defining and describing in only one way, is already misguiding (““If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite.” (William Blake); “There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception” (Aldoux Huxley)

Q3 Do you believe that God is incomprehensible, and can never be comprehended? If you believe that God can be comprehended, then in which form do you comprehend? What is the basis for your comprehension?

Knowing of and knowing about is one thing… but knowing God is totally different, and no matter how much literature is out there, or how many pretences are made, no­one in truth can say they truly know the incomprehensible, though they may catch glimpses of it. The verb to “comprehend” is already out of the equation, it implies the logical mind, and according to many seers it can be felt, not really comprehended. It is said it can be “known” through the wisdom of your own heart, and not be reduced to knowledge, to a hypothesis and a formula like H2O. All searching will remain rational, all seeking will be based in the mind.

“You cannot see that which is the Seer of seeing, you cannot hear that which is the Hearer of hearing, you cannot think of that which is the Thinker of thought, you cannot know that which is the Knower of knowledge.” (Brhadaranyaka Upanishad : III. 4. 2.)

“You are the One, the Knower of my knowing the speechmaker of my utterances the petitioner of my adulations…

I am the Self, multiple manifestation of multitudes, a dualistic unity immanently within itself, the Life-Ying, the Reality-Yang!… (“Gnostic Sagacity”)

Q4 In this so called “cynical” world where nothing runs without money and every possible step is taken to earn money, how far or how impactful is mysticism over cynicism or worldliness?

Answer: During these transitory times and moments of seemingly insurmountable adversity, still we are offered a choice: to deny the change therefore the challenge or to embrace it and be transformed.

If we are able to overcome the division: this is me and the rest is someone else or something else, if we can understand that what I accumulate is mine but never can be me, moving from the paradigm: “I have therefore I am” towards “I AM therefore I have”, when we can experience inclusiveness and yourself as the other person’s self, then we should be able to “to peer” beyond “the optical illusion of everyday life” (Einstein) “I am not here to trade anymore the cosmic runes and liquid dreams, as Universe stumbles into its own photons…

I am here to renounce my own spectrum with all its refracted words, rhythms and sensationalized perfect imperfections…” (“Cyberspaced Truths”) If we do not interpret mysticism in the “traditional” way, as being a way to explore the faith within a religion/dogma, but seeing it from a different angle. Various stages in the human development have brought about various stages of evolvement in human consciousness.

I personally consider all artists and all forms of art as a powerful expression of mysticism, not necessary expressed through words, in much the same way that mystic artists need their introversion time, to imply all their senses, to “enter” that stage of ecstasy and rapture; both mystics and artists encounter other “realities” from where they gain insights, accessing different realms of experiences. For me art is a means of meditation, leading the mind inwards, transferring attention from the material thing to the immaterial idea.

Heidegger said that the greatest, art “grounds history” by “allowing truth to spring forth” and “art is the becoming and happening of truth”. According to him great artworks helps establish the implicit ontology and ethics through which an historical community understands itself and its world, therefore its consciousness: “all art is essentially poetry, bringing something that is, into the open.”

Q5 If you have the power to change something in the world, what would you like to change and why?

Answer: Art develops the consciousness and when creative art is truly inspired, it comes close to being sacred. If there is something I would love to restore, it is the love for art, as it creates a predisposition for a better world, with greater empathy and unity. Through the practice of art a person may come closer to his/her soul than through occultism or other practices.

Q6 I have read many poetic works on love, nature, betrayal/heart break are the most common themes written about. The topic you write is very unique. What is the inspiration behind choosing such a topic?? Is it your interest in mysticism or have you personally experienced it in life? Please share your experience with us.

Answer: For me poetry is an opportunity to explore and navigate the multiple aspects of being, rather than the various ways of doing; to reveal agapism by not trusting the fragmentation and plurality of the logical mind, to enlighten disenchanted thinking, in favour of multiplicity, indeterminacy by rejecting the limited disciplinary boundaries.

The expression “I Am That You Are” shows that multiple selves are not to be seen as discontinuous fragments, a fragmented ontology, but as a holistic visualization of our own selves interconnected and detached from the analytical discourse of the mind.

“When I found the Love footprints the absence became present, and… I know: I am pre-sent to BE in this everlastingness fate which sounds like a formula.

No heart geometrics, nor inner alphabets…

Simply, a sense of nothingness in your everyness…” (“When I found the Love Footprints”) A relationship of any kind is not seen as being fractured and fragmented, but as identifiable with another, not as a concoction of disassociated beings but as an ontological holism. Within this “state” there is a complexity of interrelations and processes which leads to growth and and healing (Note: the etymology of the word

“to heal” (from “Heilen” in German, and “Kailo” as an Indo-European root) refers to the state and process of wholeness). This flowing wholeness which is constantly enfolding and unfolding, is the fundamental order in the universe which allows us to transcend fragmentation, as everything is in a state of process or becoming in an universal influx during this process of explicating and implicating as a holomovement.

“In this timeless ethereality where silences built converted assonances and gravitational elapses, I breathe your unspoken space Within my pollinated reflections…” (“Ethereal Awareness”) My poems do not present a static wholeness but a dynamic one, in a continuous motion in this inter-connected process, a cosmological undivided wholeness in an undivided totality. The force of Love allows this interconnection to be total, moving from the “law of the individual” the “law of the whole”, the focus being on the internality rather than the externality of the things. This totality continually forms and dissolves as part of the universal flux, an enfolding-unfolding consciousness, as everything is part of a single unified whole.

“Me… and You… Without yesterdays and tomorrows, just conjugated by the verb of Today!…” (“Drink deeply From My Soul”) The transpersonal self, also called “the real self” is attuned to the relational nature of reality to the “Love-Life” energy, and a significant amount of self-transformation takes place during this creative self-understanding which ultimately leads towards self-healing.

“Drink deeply from my soul and let questions come in …and fall out of this Existence!….

See the Beauty beyond the Beauty, let your breath sing different sizes of Life (…)

Let the flavour of your Beingness Explode into this Existence!” (“Drink deeply From My Soul”) I believe in the revelation and power of the word, as a metaphysical insight, a transcendent act, beyond the potentiality of the human condition, and this is not to be confused with individualized knowing.

Q7 We all come from different countries, speak different language, have different cultures but still are able to connect by way of Art, creativity, music, poetry. Do you feel that belonging to different places has an impact on Art??

Art is a language known to everyone, and multiple cultures, multiple “voices” add to its beauty. The challenge lies in how a so called “total artist” is able and creative enough to combine them, to take parts from various cultures and create something which is harmonious and meaningful for the rest, emphasizing unity as opposed to division.

Q8 As a spiritual being how do we connect to the universe?

“In the world there are many different roads but the destination is the same. There are a hundred deliberations but the result is one” (Confucius). The so called “Truth” is to be found along many “paths”, and at any moment anyone can choose the direction which answers their heart’s beckoning at certain stages in life. Simply having “awareness” is the key, and how someone applies this differs from one individual to another. In our pluralistic society everyone will have pluralistic hypotheses and will interpret the world in their own way, deciding what is “True” or “False” according to their own convictions. For each human being on this earth there is a learning curve, and each being has to find their own experience – this would be their wisest act. The more I have read, the more I have realized (who) I am. I have come to terms with the fact that I know that I do not know.

Where substantial diversity exists, of course there is substantial differentiation.

To answer your question, there is no ready-made formula on how to connect with the universe. Someone could be simply in awareness and believe he/she is in connection with the divine, with the ultimate Reality, with the Real. It could be a conflicting truth system for others but the “reality” for someone, therefore a vast chasm in their belief systems.

Q9 Tell us about your second book? What is the title of the book and what is it all about?

The second book, named “I am! Within You –Without You!” has the same principle “‘My humanity is inextricably bound up in yours.’ We belong in a bundle of life” (“Ubuntu”, the African philosophy of life) It is the same approach with “The Light of Our Beingness – I Am That You Are!” talking of mindfulness thorough the alchemy of Love, a life juxtaposed with the infinite of the universe, a depiction about “Unione Mystica” (mystical union), lovers living a continuum verb, inside an unravelled universe.

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