Saurabh Chauhan* dwells on a collection of conversational poems on the highly popular Tibetan Buddhist deity Tara by Soumya Sambasivan, an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer who serves as Deputy Inspector General of Police for the Northern Range in Himachal Pradesh, which asks what it means to seek help, to let go of the self and to find a place for compassion in a world that can often seem governed by judgment and conflict, and which tries to answer the question how does one remain engaged with the world without being entirely consumed by it.
DHARAMSHALA: The café in Dharamshala had an unusual setting for a discussion on poetry. Its terracotta-red walls were covered with dozens of New Yorker...





