Mother's Love the shade of flowers - Softcover

Bakshi, Rakesh Anand

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798511535142

Publisher: Independently published, 2021

Synopsis

I am indebted to my daddy for my intellectual curiosity and pursuit of independence, to my mummy for the efflorescence of my heart and life. - Rakesh Anand Bakshi

Maa, Mother, the most beautiful color in the palette of our life. With our mother, we dare to dream, learn explore and thrive. With her blessings and prayers, we are ever protected. The love of a mother manifests into a wholesome up bringing of the child. Moreover, a mother adds unparalleled beauty to our world much like the serene shade of colorful flowers blooming in the spring.

I wrote these poems as a tribute to my mother, Kamla Anand Bakshi. But she could never read them, Mummy was not able to read English. So I decided to publish them, 13 years after her eternal travel, as a book for women, children, moms, anyone to read and appreciate mothers. It includes a poem to my father too, that reflects my admiration for my mother. Sadly, I was too shy to give my dad the poems I wrote for him.

This illustrated book includes letters written as tributes for mothers.

Written by Rakesh Anand Bakshi
Designed by Priyanka Soorma Chaturvedi
Illustrated by Urva Sharma
In association with Booktivity India

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Preface

Rakesh Anand Bakshi, a very dear friend, with this precious illustrated and poetic book opened us up to pen our thoughts for our moms. Perhaps for the very first time, some of us sat back and thought about the most precious person in our lives and we wrote a tribute for our mom to share with her and our readers. Well, I did.

‘Mother’s Love the shade of flowers’, an illustrated anthology of poems and letters to mothers depicts the personification of a mother conjoined with all other roles. This collection of tributes for their moms by family and friends has so beautifully brought out a mother’s tender yet formidable essence in a well-modulated and poetic manner.

As I wrote my own tribute for my mom for this book and later as I read that of others in this book I was surrounded by the love and warmth of mothers who are a role model for us. Overwhelming gratitude for my mom too is what I felt even long after I had finished reading it.

‘Mother’s Love the shade of flowers’ should be read by teens and adults alike and can make a most deserving gift for our mom or anyone else. If you do present it to your mom, may I please urge you not to present it without writing a note for her. The book has space enough for you to add your own tribute to your mom; share with her what she means to you. I’m a mom of two loving children and I wrote one for my mom and gifted this book to her, I know exactly how that feels!
God bless our moms for being our very own the 'speed-dial God-in-our-home' for us.

Ritu Hinduja Chhabria
Founder Mukul Madhav Foundation, Mukul Madhav Vidyalaya.

About the author
Rakesh Anand Bakshi is a film script writer, director and an author,
Directors’ Diaries – The Road To Their First Film (Harper Collins India) 2015,
Let’s Talk ON AIR – Conversations With Radio Presenters (Penguin Random House) 2019;
Directors’ Diaries 2 (Penguin Random House) 2019;
I Adore You (with Kanika Kedia Rawal), personalized diaries for our fond memories.
Founder of Bicycle Angels, a social-initiative supported by friends donates livelihood bicycles, wheelchairs to the cerebral palsy challenged, computer literacy to the visually impaired.
Nagme Kisse Baatein Yaadein - Anand Bakshi by Penguin India may 2021;
a book for women and children, Mother’s Love The Shade of Flowers,
When I Grow Up an illustrated story & activity book for children age 4-7 (both being published by Birch Books in 2021);
Light Speaks are his work-in-progress.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798511535142
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Sharma Urva
• Number of pages: 56