Aasaan by Aalok Srivastava [Paperback]

In this market-driven era of eroding human relationships, Alok Srivastava’s ghazals reflect the mirror of his personal experiences. Many of the compositions in Aasaan bear witness to deep social concerns. This book evokes the feeling of colors being spread through words on the canvas of its pages, where readers encounter a mastery of poetic forms—and the ability to capture a Sufi-like thought within the brevity of just a doha (couplet).

The compositions in the book connect so intimately with the reader’s emotions that they feel like their own unspoken thoughts. Aasaan also includes Hindi interpretations of two profound Sanskrit works: the scholarly Ravana’s Shiva Tandava Stotram and Goswami Tulsidas’s Rudrashtak.