BLAZE: A SON’S TRIAL BY FIRE: A TRUE STORY

Category Biographies & Memoirs
Format Paperback
Imprint Rupa
Price 395

ISBN: 978-93-90547-99-9
Pages: 348 pages
Date: 10th August 2021

ABOUT THIS BOOK

A journey of strength, courage and discovery.

Can a disease, more importantly, cancer, be a potent tool of self-evolution for both, the person who suffers from it, and his/her caregivers, especially parents? The value of good health is realized when it no more remains with us. The journey to salvage the lost friend can still offer myriad opportunities of redemption and self-discovery. It is up to us how we decide to tread this formidable path leading to self-actualization.

Time has made us realize that it is not fair to stereotype a person suffering from cancer from the point of view of cure or recovery. Many a time, such stereotyping comes from our own society, and sometimes, ironically, from the medical fraternity, for its inability to go beyond a point, after which you feel you are condemned and vegetative. All these negativities passively entrap the patients and their parents in the viciousness of the disease where they die many times before the actual death. This is the worst form of cancer which has plagued our mindset.

In the case of Divyansh Atman, the authors’ son, it was not so. Divyansh was the embodiment of courage and self-determination in the face of adversities. His life journey shows us how the path of opportunities can still be paved in the middle of adversities. He lived a big and a meaningful life that made a huge impact on the lives of people around him.

Cancer can bring in self-evolution, both for the sufferer and his caregivers.

AUTHOR OF THE BOOK

Nidhi Poddar is a woman of intrepid character who had to pass through ceaseless formidable challenges in her life while parenting her stout and inspiring son, Divyansh Atman, the protagonist of the story. These challenges eventually transformed a homemaker into an author of this book. She graduated in Economics from Patna university in 1994. She is married to Sushil Poddar and they have a daughter.

Sushil Poddar is a senior government officer who has been serving his department for the last 27 years. He did his B.Tech from ISM (IIT), Dhanbad in 1989. After serving the mining industry for five years he joined the civil services in 1994.