Rashme Sehgal Rashme Sehgal started her career in the 1970s as a poet and short story writer. She moved to journalism and went on to work for several leading newspapers including The Independent, The Telegraph, The Times of India and The Asian Age, where she worked as environmental editor. Some of the landmark events she has covered during her journalistic career have been the exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley, the destruction of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, the Kargil War, and the Taj Corridor scam. Her first novel provides an insider view of the corrupt world of Indian journalism viewing politicians at work and play. It is appropriately called Hacks and Headlines. She went on to write two books of poetry titled, ‘A Home in Simla and Other Poems’ and ‘The Flower Seller of Ganeshpuri.’ She has also written a biography on the life of Sarala and Basant Birla titled ‘Life Has No Full Stops.’ She also put together and edited a compilation of her late husband Anil Saari’s writings on Hindi cinema which were published by Oxford University Press titled ‘Hindi Cinema: An Insider’s View’ and ‘Indian Cinema—The Faces Behind the Mask.’ She admits having written about Swami Vishwananda with a great deal of trepidation as she has neither been a student of philosophy or religious studies. In 1989, she became a follower of Swami Chidvilasananda of Ganeshpuri by sheer chance. Swami Chidvilasananda helped transform her life. She describes it as a gradual process of acceptance and it took her a long time to understand, with a tremendous sense of gratitude, how significant the presence of a Satguru in an individual’s life is. She describes her meeting with Swami Vishwananda as being another fortuitous coincidence and was soon bowled over by his friendly and accessible nature. ‘You cannot help but love Swami Vishwananda because he gives of himself so freely to his devotees,’ she adds. The book gives a brief impressionistic account of her meetings with this remarkable saint.