'where the river pauses' is rachna's first collection of poetry. it was not born of a neat or linear life, but of a fully felt one—shaped by aching silences, sacred pauses, and the slow return to one’s own breath. the heart does not shatter—it deepens. these 21 poems are meditations on longing, parting, and the slow, luminous work of becoming whole in the aftermath of love. They move like water— through grief, memory, desire, and self-acceptance.