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Her thoughtful verses which often revolt to gain the roots, upwardly or downwardly enrich the poetry readers with wonderful insights. When she is not recreating the world with her poetry, she indulges in gardening.
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Her thoughtful verses which often revolt to gain the roots, upwardly or downwardly enrich the poetry readers with wonderful insights. When she is not recreating the world with her poetry, she indulges in gardening.
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28/02/2023
Nagma Shaikh
poetry is an encient way to heal the wounds that are not visible to the naked eyes. the wounds that people can't see. that why it heals us and brings the serenity that we crave in someone or somewhere. Footprints by Neelam Dadhwal is just a tender touch to the wouds that no one understands. Each poem depicts emotions that are ignored but stays deep within your core that you can't fathom but pour yourself each words as an ointment that works wonders without you noticing it. This book really gives you an inspiration to think and understand what's actually going on with you. every poem holds different emotions to the different moods. one of my best one was Reborn, it actually tell you the story in short. Footprint became my best poetry read for this month unknowingly.. Being the devotee of poem. I love the depth of her work. Her words touched the deepest parts of my heart.
26/02/2023
Swapna Peri
Often poetry is a powerful medium to showcase one’s thoughts more vividly. With fewer words, poetry has charisma, unlike prose, which is not everyone’s cup of tea. These poems by author Neelam Dadhwal explain how women tend to forget themselves and their self-importance. There are 29 poems in the book, each written with elegance, pain and thoughtful words. The poems range from love, despair, life issues, conflicts of interest in lives, anger, romance, relationships, and many more human emotions. With complex imagination and simple words, the poems are wonderfully presented. Throughout the globe, survival struggles, particularly among women, have persisted for millennia. Women have always encountered prejudice in all aspects of life. Nobody ever seems to care about the psychological duress that women endure. Women have always been deemed the weaker species and discouraged from venturing alone or with male companions. To discover and share motivation, people would frequently quote from famous feminist novels and discuss strong women. However hard we tried, this was absolute mistrust because accomplished women were few and some of them were marred by controversies of the time, but this situation began to change. The book is fascinating, with no points to be disliked, but some poems are hard-hitting with a pinch of brutal honesty.
Footprints is defined by its dual movement: a poetry that revolts against surface complacencies while digging—upwardly and downwardly—toward the origins that anchor identity, place, and perception. The poet writes from a sensibility shaped as much by the garden as by the page, yielding verses attuned to growth, decay, and the tension between cultivation and wildness. This is not confessional poetry nor nature writing in the pastoral sense; it is meditative rebellion, rooted in the physical world yet reaching toward insight that resists easy categorization. The language is thoughtful, often spare, inviting readers into quiet reckonings with what lies beneath polished certainties.
Readers who prize poetry that refuses platitudes—who are drawn to verse that listens as much as it speaks—will find Footprints a rewarding companion. It asks not for passive reception but for co-creation of meaning, a willingness to trace the poet's journey through soil and syllable alike.
What kind of reading experience does Footprints offer?
Footprints offers a contemplative, unhurried encounter with poetry that invites you to pause and reconsider what lies beneath familiar surfaces. The tone is meditative yet restless, marked by a quiet rebellion against conventional certainties. These verses reward slow reading—they unfold meaning incrementally, like roots seeking water. The experience is grounding rather than escapist, leaving you with the texture of earth and thought intertwined, a sense of having traveled both inward and downward into questions that do not resolve quickly.
Who will find Footprints most rewarding, and what does it expect of its reader?
- Readers who value poetry that prioritizes insight over spectacle, and who are comfortable with ambiguity and layered meaning.
- Those interested in the intersection of nature and interiority—gardeners, naturalists, or anyone attuned to cycles of growth and decay.
- Readers seeking verse that engages philosophical questions without didacticism, poetry that thinks rather than pronounces.
- An appetite for spare, thoughtful language and the patience to sit with a poem's silences as much as its speech.
What is the cultural significance of poetry that seeks roots in contemporary India?
In an India navigating rapid urbanization and cultural flux, poetry that literally and metaphorically digs for roots speaks to a widespread hunger for continuity and grounding. The impulse to revolt while seeking origins mirrors a generation questioning inherited narratives yet unwilling to abandon connection to place, tradition, and the natural world. Footprints addresses this duality—the need to challenge surfaces while honoring depth—making it culturally resonant for readers negotiating modernity's dislocations without severing ties to what sustains identity and memory.
What makes this poet's treatment of nature and revolt distinctive?
The poet writes from the dual vantage of gardener and thinker, merging physical labor with intellectual inquiry in ways that refuse the romanticization of nature. Revolt here is not loud protest but quiet refusal—of easy answers, of separation between body and mind, of nature as mere backdrop. The gardening practice becomes epistemology: knowledge gained through tending, waiting, accepting failure. This grounds the poetry in material reality while allowing it to reach toward metaphysical questions, a balance that distinguishes it from both overtly political verse and purely aesthetic exercises.
What does Footprints leave the reader with after finishing it?
- A heightened attentiveness to the overlooked—the small gestures of growth, the intelligence of roots, the meanings held in soil and silence.
- Questions rather than answers, invitations to continue thinking about origins, belonging, and the relationship between revolt and rootedness.
- A vocabulary for navigating duality—the need to honor depth while questioning surfaces, to cultivate while allowing wildness.
- A quiet resilience, the kind that comes from touching earth and recognizing continuity beneath upheaval.
