uljhi lakire / उलझी लकीरे  (Hindi, Paperback, Maya)

Charles Baudelaire, the famous 19th Century French poet, once remarked “One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters…But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.” The composition of poems in Uljhe Lakhire (Intertwined lines) is bound to get the romantic at heart completely intoxicated. With a lifetime of experiences and observations that come through her poetry, Maya shines a soft light into the inner recesses of one heart that one did not know existed. Like many hopeless romantics over the millennia, she seems to be inspired by nature and besotted by the Moon. But don’t let that fool you as some of her poems bring a raw and searing look at nature of love, the optimism of hope, the conduct of (wo)man and the condition of life. Her poems, like all great poems, lift you up to the sky with exhilaration and bring you back down to earth gently while gently probing and asking profound questions about life’s essentials such as hope, love, sharing and giving. This set of poems was inspired by love and hopefully, will ignite the same in the readers over the years.