Celebrating the joy and the pain (Book Review - Sunita Saldhana's Who Shall I be Today?)

Title: Who Shall I be Today? Author: Sunita Saldhana Genre: Poetry Publisher: Patridge India Sunita Saldhana's Who Shall I be Today is a collection of poems which explores the many roles of being a woman. I was a little apprehensive about reading this book because I did not want to read self-righteous poems about the superiority of doing a lot. Not that I don't have my moments of feeling a little larger-than-life, when I am multi-tasking, but more often than not, I would rather take things in my stride and enjoy what I have. My apprehensions were unnecessary, though. The first poem in this collection is titled 'Words'. I fell hook line and sinker with that one itself. A few lines from that poem - "Words, Adding magic to my world, Breathing life into feelings, Helping me fly." It just got better as I read along. The poems in Who Shall I be Today explore varied emotions. Independence, "I love you but I am happy when I