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Seasons of Sweetness
Seasons of Sweetness is Radhika Sharma’s new poetry collection — a book of metaphysical poems that moves through memory, identity, love, and the passing of time. Across poems such as “Bangles” and “First Times,” the collection turns ordinary, sensory moments into richly textured reflections on the human experience.
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“Radhika's work serves as an exploration of intimacy, memory, and the human experience. With a unique voice that blends vulnerability and playfulness, she weaves together seemingly disparate threads – childhood memories, sensory details, and emotional landscapes – to create richly textured poems that linger long after reading. In "Bangles" and "First Times," Radhika's nuanced exploration of identity, love, and the passing of time is both deeply personal and universally relatable, making her work a compelling read.”
“Radhika explores the timelessness of life right through its trials and tribulations using the metaphor of bangles! A Secular and egalitarian witness in multitudes of metals and colors, for one, and all, a constant companion, in this journey of life! She doesn’t stop there. She then embarks on the exploration of that perpetual “quest “ in our lives, that vows us each time, we stumble on those ‘eureka moments’ of life - the simple but joyous “first experiences” of the profound and the mundane, but without us, really realizing the beauty of it all! Does this exploration ever stop or does it not? Discover the answer in this beautiful compilation of metaphysical poetry by Radhika - A Sonata with variations and nuances that mirror our lives!”
Parikrama: A Collection of Short Stories
In this stylish, taut and meditative collection of eleven stories, Radhika Sharma explores through the prism of short fiction the challenges posed to individuals and families by the processes of migration of homelands while simultaneously dealing with the never ending human quest for love and closure. From rural Rajasthan to the San Francisco Bay Area, each of these stories is homage to human resilience. In the title story Parikrama, a young man embarks upon a journey, a personal spiritual circumambulation, to connect the dots of his deceased parents’ lives stumbling upon some unexpected secrets of his own. In another story, Agony Aunt a young immigrant Indian mother makes a difficult choice between a sustaining a rare friendship and preserving her self-respect. While Beneath Her Veil the Stars Faded Away set in the late 1980’s in small town Rajasthan tells the tale of an uncommon friendship between a childless middle-aged school principal and a young bride. Parikrama is eleven stories like sashes, sari pins, flowers, waves – a range of style, motifs and voices strung together in a garland of storytelling.
“This beautiful collection of short stories captures the experiences of life – uplifting, empathy-inducing, and amusing – of its endearing characters with captivating prose that wishes you were there alongside them.”
“This collection is aptly named Parikrama, as the stories take the reader through an entire gamut of thought-provoking and emotion inducing journeys.”
Mangoes for Monkeys
Spanning eight decades, Mangoes for Monkeys tells the story of Suchitra and her promise to the monkeys in her sylvan childhood home. From pre-independence India to the year 2000, Mangoes for Monkeys catalogues Suchitra’s life journey as a woman, mother, wife, artist and photographer. Weaving a tapestry of emotions and relationships, Radhika Vyas Sharma, keeps the focus on Suchitra and her metamorphosis. Additionally, whether Suchitra’s monkeys will get to feast on mangoes in the thick of winter makes for a surprise and nail-biting finish.
“A beautifully rendered novel that spans generations and continents with warmth and wisdom.”