Wouldn't an incident of cancer afflicting someone in your family cause tremendous turmoil within you?
As a poet, I put both the happy ad sad moments in my life on paper and while doing this I often magnify my happiness a million times and dwarf my sorrows to an even greater degree. Writing breaks all your inhibitions and makes you share your innermost feelings and emotions with the world, just like I have done in this book.
I wish I could get inside the minds of cancer patients and their loved ones and dwell there as they read this book. If I could do that, I might succeed in telling them that in this life - which is vaster and deeper than any ocean - unaccountable and unpredictable things do happen. As with the oceans, no one can fathom what lies beneath. There are tides and ebbs, cyclones and calm spells. And churning hrows up so many things .one by one. Our lives are, therefore, very similar to the oceans.
My nanny used to say - this too, shall pass and the one truth of life is that everything, however good or bad, does eventually come to pass.