ISBN: 1000000000161    Publisher: Pinakin Shah Year of publishing: 2015     Format:  Paperback Language: English

‘Garden of Joy’ is a bouquet of sentient reflections of the author on some beautiful moments of life. It really is an allegory of soul’s romance, projected in a personal Album-Diary containing dialogues with self, family and Nature, subtly revealing his rapport and camaraderie with them all. Poems add a dimension and exotic pictures pour life into text which is soaked in spirituality. This landscape of beauty and love portrays peace while it upholds family values. This silent commune is really a poetic tribute, a paean, a prayer to Mother Nature; and is pregnant with live messages of Amity and Harmony.

He takes us on a pleasant journey from the finite things of worldly beauty to an enigmatic ultimate and the infinite within. This monument reveals, ‘Close proximity to Nature enlightens the inner world, helps bring about a balance, and is endowed with the potential to pacify ailing beings’. It is evident here that journey in the world gets richer, turns a pilgrimage if done with a silent and meditated amble into alleys of the mind.
Books can either take us to the past or help us see the possible future, but this one makes us dive to explore the very present. It opens doors to the ‘Now’; to give us a glimpse of the ornate garden that blossoms within. These ‘pleasures of leisure’ can bring us home.

“Millions travel out in the world, but few travel within [their soul]. Many people tour around to enjoy exotic Nature and varied cultures but only some of them can capture their beauty, purity, innocence and the liveliness in frames so effectively. And still fewer can reflect, pen the philosophy and the emotions aroused by Nature in such lucid and poetic words for others to partake. This is an account of meditative travel that only the ones having the gift of a passionate heart, and a joyful - vibrant mind make”. Surendra Sangani


It’s a symphony straight from the heart, and an ultimate gift from parents to children.
Though addressed to their children, these letters are music to everyone. Not everyone gets a calling from Mother Nature, you are blessed. Ankur Gupta.
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Dr Pinakin Shah is a consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon practising for the last 35 years in Mumbai at Borivali. Besides spine surgery, joint replacement and trauma care, he has a keen interest in poetry, teaching, classical and folk music, photography and travel. After schooling in Gujarati medium with technical subjects at S.S.C. he took up I.I.T. Aeronautics at Bombay to soon switch over to medicine at K.E.M. hospital. He had the good fortune of advanced learning and fellowships. A.O. at Germany [Poly Trauma] J.&J. at Czech, Prague [Primary & revision joint replacement] He is married to Dr. Rekha, a General and Breast Onco Surgeon and has two daughters Amiti and Ishani, both masters of surgery. All living in Mumbai. He is also fond of roaming in Nature, lecturing , developing software for health education, writing, conducting workshops on lifestyle and on ways to augment health. Ergonomics, the art of living from a doctor's perspective, ways to prevent accidents, backache, common Orthopaedic problems and ways to solve them are his forte. He has given talk on Care TV, on backache, written articles in bulletins and newspapers, His articles on health issues are well sought in magazines.
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