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Talking about his book, Savi said, “The majority of the poems in this book are about my mother, especially the time after she passed away. Her death, the rituals involved, we taking her ashes to Haridwar, her name being incorporated into this huge family document which is maintained by the pundits, the way my father reacted to her death and so many other things. How she was treated during her lifetime by my father and how he wept when she died.” To this, the poet adds, “and then somewhere along the poems ceased to be just about my mother. The poems became my mother, my wife, my daughter and even those thousands of daughters who are killed in the mother’s womb.”
The book which is also a visual treat, with some great photographs taken by Savi himself of his native village, begins with a short prayer to the Cosmic mother and then comes a poem titled Alvida Maa (Goodbye Mother!). Weaving through a gamut of emotions through adi, gati, gau maan the poet has brought to life and poetry the otherwise harsh but true and mundane realities of day to day life. As Amarjit Singh Grewal in his preface to this book writes, “Sawaranjit Singh Savi has tried to focus and build a society whose basic components are the feminine qualities like cooperation and love and not the usually masculine traits of violence and competition. We all have seen the ill effects of the society that stands on violence and through his poems Savi is clear that we do not need such a society but a beautiful future which will be constructed on emotions like love and motherhood.”
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