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Antaryātrā - The Inner Journey: An English Transliteration
Paperback
Poetry CriticismGeneral Poetry
ISBN13: 9789356267497
Publisher: Avikavani Publishers
Published: Jan 2 2026
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Antaryatrā - The Inner Journey is a contemplative poetry collection that explores conscience, memory, and moral awareness in a fractured contemporary world. Rather than offering ornamental verse, this book traces a sustained inward movement-an ethical pilgrimage through love and loss, violence and compassion, dissent and devotion. Each poem functions as a moment of pause, inviting readers to confront the inner echoes of lived experience.
Anand Kumar Ashodhiya's poetry engages directly with social reality and historical memory without surrendering to rhetoric or spectacle. Poems such as Danga and Kargil stand as acts of moral witnessing, addressing communal rupture and national sacrifice with restraint, clarity, and dignity. Patriotism here is disciplined reverence rather than display; protest emerges as ethical insistence rather than noise. Silence, grief, and responsibility are allowed to speak for themselves.
Alongside this social consciousness runs a deeply human lyricism. Love, separation, remembrance, and longing appear not as romantic excess, but as quiet aftershocks of intimacy. Personal emotion expands into philosophical reflection, allowing individual sorrow to assume universal significance. The poems resist sentimentality, favoring emotional precision, inward honesty, and ethical clarity.
The spiritual dimension of Antaryatrā is neither doctrinal nor declarative. Faith appears as inquiry, humility, and self-examination. Poems grounded in stillness transform reflection into a form of moral discipline, aligning inner clarity with compassion and restraint. Devotion here is lived rather than proclaimed.
Stylistically, the collection bridges the earthiness of regional idiom with the elegance of literary Hindi, retaining musicality even in free verse. The language is unadorned yet resonant, capable of carrying folk immediacy alongside philosophical depth. In English translation, this moral lyricism extends naturally to a wider readership without diluting its cultural interiority.
Antaryatrā - The Inner Journey affirms poetry's enduring role as the conscience of its time-quiet, courageous, and inwardly illuminated. It is a book for readers who seek not answers, but awareness; not spectacle, but recognition.
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