![]() My next book 2047: The unifier is racy romantic thriller about love and peace. From ashes to dreams was about loving oneself and Woman, everything will be fine was about the psyche of a working woman and how the challenges often bring out a better version of you. (Many of my women-centric poems have also been widely circulated in social media, often without my name.) So there is no common theme, but I do tend to write more on women centric themes. Poetry for me is straight from my heart and I can only write when I feel passionately about the subject. ![]() Book extract: Shahbaz Taseer on being at death's door for 5 years.Shahbaz Taseer’s memoir about terrorist captivity is an extraordinary tale.The Woman Who Climbed Trees review: Addictive, evocative and haunting.Is there a common theme you want to touch upon in your poetry and your books? Your previous work, Woman, Everything Will be Fine, looked at the experience of a working woman who was transferred to a new city. Your 2018 book, From Ashes to Dreams, looks at the life of an orphan. I feel that the world is full of good people and they all want to contribute, just don't know how! This poem was widely circulated in 2017 also and believe me, many people from across the globe reached out to me, wanting to do something. When we do that we will find that we can sleep better! We alone, can't change the world but we can do our little bit, however small that may be. I would often think of the divide that exists in our society between the rich and the poor and how I just “think" about it and do nothing! That night I wrote about all the things I do wrong and even though I know it is wrong, I continue doing it. We were going to a party, when at a traffic light, a woman who was barely covered, knocked at my window and I just looked away. I normally share immediately after I write. How do you feel the middle class of India can reconcile their conscience with what they see and encounter everyday? Many people feel they can relate with the poem. ![]() This also doesn't deter some people! So I simply share on my pages and hope that people sharing the same would give me credit for it. I published my poetry collection, Handful of sunshine, pocketful of rain, thinking that it will give me a copyright and my poems will not get plagiarized. How do you feel authors can get credit for the work that they do? The most common compliment that I get for my work is “it felt as if it was written about me”. My poems often resonate with people because I write about their thoughts and emotions. Only what people can relate to, is shared and forwarded. ![]() Abstract and complex poems do not become viral. Whenever a poem or a write up is forwarded in social media, it's because people have liked it. You’ve mentioned that many of your poems are often circulated on WhatsApp. Some smart Alec would have got this idea of attributing a poem which talks about a dying conscience to a famous lawyer! Honestly, I was amused! Mainly because by now I am used to my poems being circulated in social media mostly without any credits or under other people's names and also because I knew that Mr Jethmalani couldn't have done this. What was your reaction when this happened?Ī friend pointed it out to me that my poem was being circulated as Ram Jethmalani's. Speaking to THE WEEK, here is what she had to say about the matter.Ī poem of yours, ‘My Dying Conscience’, has gone viral after being falsely attributed to Ram Jeth Malani. Trivedi says this is not the first time her work has been plagiarised on social media. That, plus the perception that it was written by Jethmalani-a man who has seen through the entirety of independent India and its many transformations since 1947-made it swiftly go viral across social media.īut, the poem was not penned by Jethmalani, but by Delhi-based author Rashmi Trivedi. The poem, about the everyday acts of wilful indifference that define middle class life in India, touched a chord with many. You might have seen a poem beginning with this verse being circulated on social media, usually with the headline ‘Lovely poem by Ram Jethmalani, who died at 95’. ![]()
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