Sachin Jain, President and CEO at SCAN Group and Health Plan, shared on LinkedIn:
“Last Saturday was an incredibly meaningful gathering.
When my father retired from medicine, we worried. He had always been so active, so devoted to his patients and his work, that we wondered: how would he fill his days? What would give him purpose once the structure and rhythm of medicine were behind him?
What we didn’t know was that he had already found something. Quietly, privately, and without telling us, he had begun to write Hindi poetry. For most of his life, he shared little of this side of himself. We knew him as father, husband, physician, mentor, and friend – but not as a poet.
It was only after his passing that we began to uncover the large volume of poems he had left behind. The classical Hindi in which he wrote them is hard to follow. But reading them in small doses has been a revelation. It felt like meeting him again, but also meeting someone entirely new. His voice came to us in a different register. Gentler, more searching, sometimes playful, sometimes raw.
The poems surprised us, but in retrospect, they made perfect sense. They showed us how he was processing life’s turns, reflecting on beauty, struggle, and love in ways he never spoke aloud. It was a reminder of the time he told me of his quiet struggle with immigration (‘Sometimes, son, you have to turn your heart to stone’). In his poetry, we found conversations we never got to have with him, but always wished we had.
This week, surrounded by family, friends, and colleagues, we celebrated the release of Bhav Laaren – his posthumous poetry anthology, which means ‘Waves of Emotion’. The title is fitting. His words capture the ebb and flow of life’s deepest feelings. They move between memory and imagination, joy and sorrow, lightness and gravity.
For our family, Bhav Laaren has been a gift: a way to feel close to him again, a way to see him more whole. By sharing his work more broadly, we hope that others, too, might find connection, reflection, and perhaps even healing in his words.
Thank you to everyone who joined us in honoring his words and his spirit. Your presence reminded us that poetry, like medicine, like love, is ultimately about connection.
We hope you will read Bhav Laaren not just as a collection of poems, but as an invitation: to reflect, to feel, and to embrace the waves of emotion that shape all of our lives.”
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