Description of the Book:
 
Keepsakes is about all those things in life that i would like to remember, always.
It has poems that are born out of the mathematical operations that life has performed on me. The addition, the subtraction, the multiplication, the division. The whole shebang.

I undertook this project in order to know myself better and if possible, write about it in a unique way, so, this book is also the living proof that I should keep experimenting. A living proof to myself (and if I am really, really lucky, to others as well).

But it has often come to my notice that I am always winging my way through life. I am wrong about things that I held to be true four, five years ago. But I don't really remember how I was or who I was in my teenage years. My only anchor are those journals that I wrote. So Keepsakes in a way is also a map to my psyche for the 30 year old Bhavya. Hope she likes it. And if she doesn't, hope she writes another book about the things she thinks are right. Actually I want the future "me"s to keep writing anyway. And I want this cycle to go on and on and on. Keepsakes then also serves as the first checkpoint in a series of checkpoints to answer the omnipresent questions; who am I?; what am i actually thinking?; why am I thinking those things?

I am really grateful that journaling and poetry help me in a way to answer those questions. While I cannot publish my journals, that would be disastrous...I can put my poetry out in the world. However, daunting it may be.
So Keepsakes then fulfills another function for me, the function of courage. One of the cardinal virtues in tangible form.

Keepsakes, I hope then always reminds me that there are things that are worth taking a leap in the dark.