Jerry Pinto is the author of Murder in Mahim (2017) and Em and the Big Hoom (2012; winner of the Hindu Prize and the Crossword Book Award) and the non-fiction book Helen: The Life and Times of an H-Bomb (2006; winner of the National Award for the Best Book on Cinema). His other books include Asylum and Other Poems Surviving Women A Bear for Felicia Monster Garden When Crows Are White and as editor A Book of Light: When a Loved One Has a Different Mind Reflected in Water: Writings on Goa The Greatest Show on Earth: Writings on Bollywood Bombay Meri Jaan: Writings on Mumbai (with Naresh Fernandes) and Confronting Love: Poems (with Arundhathi Subramaniam). He has also translated (from Marathi) Daya Pawar’s classic autobiography Baluta and the memoirs I Want to Destroy Myself (Mala Udhvasta Vhachay) by Malika Amar Shaikh and I the Salt Doll (Mee Mithaachi Baahuli) by Vandana Mishra. Jerry Pinto also teaches journalism at the Sophia Institute of Social Communications Media in Mumbai and is on the board of directors of Meljol which works in the sphere of child rights. In 2016 Jerry Pinto was awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize and the Sahitya Akademi Award.
<p>‘And you would accept the seasons of your heart…as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.’</p><p>Kahlil Gibran’s empowering verse on surviving and overcoming pain is only one of over a hundred poems of wisdom and inspiration in this anthology that will stay with us for a lifetime. Through the changing seasons of life—its dark clouds and storms its deranging joys and sorrows—these words could show us the way to clarity and comfort and help us carry on; give us some strength to get back on our feet when we fall and help others get back on theirs.</p><p>This thoughtful anthology of strength and solace contains voices from across time and space: Muktabai Sarmad Shaheed Robert Frost Faiz Ahmed Faiz Eunice de Souza Dylan Thomas T.S. Eliot Vikram Seth Keki Daruwalla Rumi Tagore Walt Whitman Ashok Vajpeyi St Teresa of Avila Edna St Vincent Millay Ruskin Bond Emily Dickinson Mamang Dai Arundhathi Subramaniam and others.</p><p>Edited and introduced by a celebrated poet novelist and essayist—one of India’s most loved and admired writers—this is a timeless book a companion in every season.</p>
