Once Upon a Poem is shaped by the influences that shaped its author.
Fairy tales form the ground of many poems, while Amar Chitra Katha lends its frames—King Udayan’s Veena, The Letter of Vidya and Chandrahas—where narrative turns symbolic.
Threaded through the collection is an Advaitic gaze, Upanishadic in temper, attentive to the non-dual pulse beneath myth and memory.
Echoes of Carl Jung surface quietly, as archetypes, shadows, and inward journeys.
What framed a personality has framed this book: a lifelong listening to story, silence, and the self that witnesses both.