Send your entries for AnandYatra Annual 2012



AnandYatra Annual 2011 being released in March by Dr Madhavi Vaidya (Fourth from left).
From left to right are: Dr Devasthali, Madhav Vaze, Shrikant Moghe and Ravi Nabar

You will recall that the first issue of AnandYatra Annual was released last year on AnandYatra's third anniversary at the hands of  Dr Madhavi Vaidya, Executive Secretary of Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad. The occasion was graced by Madhav Vaze, noted Marathi critic and famous Marathi Thespian, Shrikant Moghe.The second issue is now due in March 2012. If You have any articles, poems, write-ups or valuable information you want to share with fellow AnandYatris, you are most welcome to send these to me. Last year we had received excellent contributions from both AnandYatris and others. Let us have a very readable AnandYatra Annual this year too.

AnandYatra Annual is probably India's first publication dedicated exclusively to the issues- emotional issues in particular- related to single individuals. In India the widowed, particularly those in their mid life, are assumed to have no emotional problems. If at all a widow may get some lip sympathy and lot of advice from friends and relatives for her depresed financial conditions.The widowed are advised to view the loss of spouse as a part of life and move on all alone without looking for new friends to filll the void. The social reformers too -justifiably so in a poor and tradition-bound society- put their mind on the economic aspect. Today,however, things are fast changing for the better in this regard. Better economic conditions allow a sizable section of the widowed to take better care of their mind. This is the area that has been by and large left untouched by writers, scholars and journalists. AnandYatra Annual is a very modest effort to create a platform where single individuals could write about their own experiences through life, and non-singles about their thinking on singles' lives. 

So write down your reflections!Who knows you may have a treasure trove worth sharing.