Season’s Pilgrimage
“No matter how intense your struggle may be,
someone is being inspired by your fight. Your story and your courage is
equipping them to see life through a completely different lens.”
-UNKNOWN
Jan 29th, 2014 has
been stored in every ASBian’s mind. All of us had the opportunity to witness
the launch of a very heart rendering book “Season’s Pilgrimage” written by our
alumnus, and an emerging writer Mr. Eshwar Anand. The book is a collection of
poems. The book was launched by our very respected and loved Dr. Sanjay
Bannerjee, who was extremely humbled to have got this opportunity.
The colloquium started with
all of us observing a minute of silence in remembrance of all the people who
lost their lives because of cancer, and also those who presently are affected
by this deadly disease. Moreover, Mr. Eshwar Anand believed that silence helps
all of us calm down regardless of all our worries.
Mr. Eshwar lost his mother due
to cancer in 2012. He has seen and gone through all the pains that cancer
afflicts on a person. It puts them down mentally, financially, physically and
psychologically. Cancer is not a life sentence. It’s just a word. People die
out of fear than the disease itself. He emphasized on the fact that there is an
urgent need to spread awareness and educate people about this disease and suppress
the fear in the patients. Keeping this in mind Mr. Eshwar has started a
campaign which gives strength to many patients to fight this disease.
Further, he showed us a video
which was a poem, “Let me kiss you”, he wrote in remembrance of his mother. It
reiterated the various moments and phases when a patient knows that he has cancer,
and what it feels then. He shared with us the last words said by his mother
“Kalpagam”, the meaning of which he still doesn’t know. It was a much
disoriented phase for both of them. She behaved like a baby.
Mr. Eshwar ended the talk by
saying that it’s very important for us to understand that people undergoing the
pain of cancer are still alive and aware of their surroundings. It is our
responsibility to inspire them.
Sharon Raj
(Team Colloquia member)
