Radha (Ghazal Collection)

The romantic Krishna finds a textual presence for the first time in the Bhagavata Purana and then for a thousand years we celebrate that Krishna through heart-throbbing Ghazals. Krishna’s love towards Radha is indeed both the kavi and the kavya, rasa and rasika, the shabda and the artha, He is Purusha and Prakriti. When Radha and Krishna dances together that times frolics, speaks and sings and shringara in its many colours comes alive for us through Ghazals.

After we have experienced the aesthetic pleasure of the love of Krishna we realize that all love in this world is that of Krishna. The hushed words of romance between a man and a woman are those of Radha and Krishna. All Ghazal that celebrates romantic love of the is that of Radha and Krishna.

No one has ever recorded the voice of Radha Krishna – one of the most powerful characters in all of chronicled history. As one half of the indivisible entity ‘RadhaKrishna’ they resonates through millions of lives every day and yet, their Ghazals remain unsung; their stories stay untold Until now.

This book entitled an eponymous ‘Radha’; is a collection of Ghazals written for Radha by Krishna.

This book represnts Krishna speaking to his beloved Radha through Ghazals across the ages, in an endless conversation that ebbs and flows and heaves and rests like the rhythm of a vast ocean. Sometimes he is a young boy, sometimes he is an old man, sometimes he is petulant in his love for his Radha, sometimes he is unflinching in his courage in letting go of her beloved Radha. This book is an imagined conversation between two of the most evocative characters of all time. Here Krishna is writing Ghazals for his Radha, although he never speaks any word.

We invite you to immerse yourself in the beautiful Ghazals of Krishna, through the melody and lyrics let His madhurya wash over you like the waves of the Yamuna and his many-splendoured persona make your mind dance like the birds and blossoms of Vrindavana.

The Radha Krishna myth has for centuries inspired poets and artists. Here in RADHA, Hr. Divyesh Sanghani reinterprets this myth to liberate Radha from his image in traditional literature and introduces her as an exceptional character who combines in herself the tenderest emotions of love with the yearning to discover her own identity. Here all Ghazhals are strange because it’s helpful in a blend of erotic love and existentialist soul-searching.