Transient Reflections Impressions Permanent

Paradigms that ask us where we go. From the randomness of desolate sands to the empty sky beyond the mountains’ cusp? A becalmed mind, slowly getting lost in delusion or turning the corner towards freedom?

Reflections on places riding on waves of poetry. Impressions taking form over time and space, into permanence. 

Linking twenty-three cities and places across three continents, this book brings together the emotions a poem evokes, the thousand words a picture speaks, the contemplations a piece of prose induces. Towards a shared template and a personal intent for our society today.

Through the eyes of someone who has been a student, a professional, a traveller, a layman. Striving to be a citizen. Aren’t we all?


“An absolutely delightful volume which is a seamless amalgamation of prose, poetry and pictures… a wonderful journey of literary reflection…”

- Sumati Varma, Phd 

Associate Professor, Delhi University and Consultant, World Bank Group


“…It touches many a chord and myriad emotions... The moods he encapsulates are just right, be it with the picture, the poetry or his simple and winsome prose. ”

- Raja Natesan

Travel Industry Leader, and former COO at TUI India, former President at InterGlobe Technologies/Galileo India


“Rajat shares amazing personal stories that provide insights to the 21st century world reader… astute human observations, charming deductions and absorbed living - it inspires.”

- Ranjini Manian

Founder, Global Adjustments, and Former member, Harvard Women’s Leadership Board