# Dear Father

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- Published: 2026-04-07T19:52:43+00:00
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**Author:** Balesh Jindal[⌊A sample cover of the book: dark purple handloom sari. The border of the sari lines the right hand margin of the cover. The title, author's name and genre of the book are printed on a white paper flap that is wrapped around a part of the lower half of the book.⌉](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Dear-Father.jpeg)
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Pages:** 42 **Year of Publication:** 1994 **Price:** ₹100 **ISBN: **81-7189-696-
0 (8171896960)

_**About the Author**_
 Dr Balesh Jindal is a graduate of Lady Hardinge Medical 
College and has been engaged with rural medical practice for over four decades. 
A pioneering physician and community health advocate, she has cared for five generations
within the same families. After publishing this book, she went on to write _The 
Reluctant Doctor, A Hundred Dreams_ and _A False Sky_ and has contributed to numerous
anthologies. Her work has earned international recognition including the Award For
Compassion from Stanford University, the Rabindranath Tagore Award for Literature(
2023), the New York City Big Book Award, the Asian Literary Society Award and honours
from leading medical bodies for exemplary community service. She continues to practise,
create art pieces and write, guided by the conviction that empathy is the foundation
of medicine, art and literature.

_**About the Book**_

> “_**Dear**** Father**_ is my first collection of poems. I had lost my father just
> a few years back and was hurting with his loss so a few poems are about losing
> him. The grief, the hopelessness and the days that rose and set without any meaning.
> Mother’s blank face, without a trace of a smile, vacant eyes and the white garb
> that she adopted readily. Anyone who has lost a parent, this book is for you.
> Some poems are about nature and even new relationships, some sour and others sweet
> as all relationships are. In these pages, time is not a linear path but a loop
> of seasons, emotions and moments that blur like the brush of twilight across the
> sky. The rhythm of the world beats in quiet echoes — sometimes loud, sometimes
> soft — capturing the grace and agony of things that exist only in the space between
> heartbeats.”                                

Dr Balesh Jindal

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