Has it ever happened that you hear a story about someone and think to yourself what would it be like to be that person, to feel so great an empathy for them that you not only feel their pain and sorrow but also marvel at the strength of their will and the depth of their courage? To feel, viscerally, to the very core of your being a common thread of humanity.
Thirteen stories, thirteen human experiences. From Bindu's pen.
From being in the management of Bennett Coleman & Co. to managing a publishing house with her family in Mumbai to finally realising her dream of becoming a pub- lished author, Bindu's journey of many hues has always brought her back to black ink on white paper. Of Beasts & Beauty is her first book of short stories and she is working on her first novel which she hopes to finish by the end of 2021
. Practising Shambhavi Mahamudra twice daily, as taught by Sadhguru, is the only other passion she will confess to because it keeps her in good spirits in an uncertain world.
Beasts, beauty and the ordinary.
The ordinary is seen as boring, routine and to be borne, rather than celebrated. I have grown up with this notion. Which I declare is false, hypnotic and classist.
Ordinary is actually more prevalent, more real and more precious than extraordinary. Ordinary is high maintenance. It sustains only if every moment you can stay aware, focused and full of joy.
This discovery of the virtues of the ordinary emerged from the penning of these 13 stories.
What seemed bizarre, cruel and stranger than fiction when I wrote them, is actually what the stuff life around me is made of. Ordinary are the beasts and beauty in every home, flat, town, village, country... Ordinary is the real colour of humans. We cloak it all in mystery and label these humans, 'beasts or beauty'. In the eternal game of evasion and lies!
Of course, were I to title this volume of 13 stories, 'Ordinary', you dear reader, may have turned your gaze from the bookshelf.
Why don't I then title this book 'Extraordinary"? Why 'Of Beasts & Beauty"?
When you turn your gaze from 'The Longest Night' to 'Munimji', you will find that both characters, one without a name and the other called Leela, live in your midst.
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