Hymn of the Heart

About the Book

"Hymn of the Heart" is voice of heart knitted beautifully in verse. The words come out from deep channels of the core depicting varied human emotions and character complexities. The book talks of Romance, pristine love and questions status quo in Indian society almost in Autobiographical way. The book is a reaction to the world, it is not a knee-jerk, impulsive or reactive reaction, but subtle, quite response mechanism to the world in pearls of philosophical words and wisdom. The Book epitomises life and is sattirical to janus faced segment of the society.

About the Author

The author is known as Rahul to his family and friends, and Nachhiketa to social media, though in official records he is Sachin Yadav. Nachhiketa is a character in Katha Upanishad, an Indian scripture, where a protagonist Nachhiketa is ever thirsty for quest of knowledge, questions status quo, and questions hypocrisy. The character inspired the writer in his teenage immensely and he started writing under pen-name Nachhiketa. Rahul was born on August 11, 1978 in sleepy but poetic town of Lucknow in Northern India. He did graduation in Business Administration and went ahead to do an MBA from Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. After having stint in manufacturing industry, he switched to Banking for the past one decade. A poet in and a poet out, poetry is way of life for Rahul. He writes on almost every facet of life whether is love, romance, humanity, rejection, reflection and strong positive personalities. He had been writing since age of nine and had been contributing in leading newspapers in his college days, and. The poet has compiled best of his work across all categories of human emotions in book form to be shared with the world. As any poetry comes out of the human soul, it has touch of his own life and story, in other words it is an autobiography in verse. In his poetry he searches his lost mother, who died when he was 17 months old. The absence of mother and search of an “ideal life” hallmarks the start of his poetic journey. Presently based in Mumbai, the writer lives with his wife Sweta who is a software professional, and two lovely daughters Priyal and Lavanya. The poet has dedicated his first book to his close friend Ganapathy Subban who died in January 2014. His loss had changed the attitude towards life significantly. “Life is unpredictable, but my actions are under the control of my senses”. The writer lives in this karmic philosophy.