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The author believes that the two 'Fakir' books were a gift to him
from the Sai Baba of Shirdi, and that "we are all spirits encased in
a box." In his latest book The Fakir, The Journey Continues,
Ruzbeh connects with his readers through Rudra, the central
character, who has passed on after his death.
Ruzbeh Bharucha isn't a monk, and he didn't sell his Ferrari, but
his books on spirituality and wellbeing, and hard hitting social
documentaries reveal a mind that is finely attuned to the human
condition.
In The Fakir, Ruzbeh Bharucha explained complex issues like
karma, life after death, spirit communication, faith, power of
prayer etc, and in the sequel The Fakir: The Journey Continues
Bharucha uses Sai Baba as the guru to guide Rudra through the higher
realms of the spirit world.
Ruzbeh N Bharucha talks about Sai Baba of Shirdi and how he came to
write the book The Fakir and its sequel.
A fictional story that explores themes like life after death,
healing, commitment and faith in the master among others is picking
up popularity in Germany, says its Indian author Ruzben N Bharucha.
They say the pen is the mightiest sword, and considering Ruzbeh
Bharucha's works, this couldn't be any truer. This Pune-based writer
believes in reaching out to the masses through his stories which are
often based on true incidents.
He has always been creatively inclined - be it writing, music,
filmmaking or theatre. For Ruzbeh Bharucha, who is back with the
second volume of his book, The Fakir...The Journey Continues,
art is an expression of the soul.
Spiritual writer Ruzbeh Bharucha deals with karma, divinity, life
after death, forgiveness in his books.
Writer-filmmaker Ruzbeh Bharucha's new book, The Fakir, The Journey
Continues is out. In an interview to Arwa Janjali, he dwells on
spiritualism, his previous work and his philosophy.
He is a Sufi
spiritualist, an editor, columnist and a writer with
eight books to his credit. And Ruzbeh N. Bharucha believes in the
power of free will and that there are two parallel worlds -- the
body and the spirit.
Ruzbeh N Bharucha wears several hats. Once a journalist, he is
now a documentary film-maker and writer. His latest book, Yamuna
Gently Weeps, chronicles Delhi's Pushta slum demolitions. Avijit
Ghosh speaks to Bharucha about the dark side of urbanization.
Ruzbeh Bharucha raises a voice for the slum dwellers who are being
increasingly dispossessed by a nexus of political, land mafia and an
indifferent media.
Ruzbeh Bharucha calls himself a voyager and a traveller. He has seen
the innards of India and when you ask: “There is so much talk of
India becoming a global power. What does the reality tell you?”
Written, consciously, as a travelogue,
My God is a Juvenile Delinquent is a thoughtful journey. Thoughtful
because Ruzbeh N Bharucha, who staunchly believes in conducting
research in the real world, gives you several companions right at
the beginning of the journey - a journey where you get to explore
the world of over 30,000 juvenile delinquents.
Ruzbeh Bharucha in his book My God is
a Juvenile Delinquent, brings forth the plight of the teenagers in
the observation homes nationwide.
Ruzbeh N. Bharucha is a renouned journalist, author and documentary
filmmaker. His documentary Yamuna Gently Weeps, which dealt
with arbitary evacuation of slum dwellers in Delhi's Yamuna Pustha,
received much critical acclaim in several countries. Along with
social commentaries, he has also written books on the paranormal and
the mystical, such as The Fakir and The Last Marathon.
According to Bharucha, a documentary filmmaker, the judiciary and
police end up reinforcing a criminal identity, instead of providing
counseling that could wean the child off bad company and bad habits.
The fact that Bharucha was allowed to interact with these children
shows that things are changing (a fact that he acknowledges). One
can only hope that the change happens sooner than later. Many bright
futures are dependant on it.
Released in September 2006, Ruzbeh Bharucha'sYamuna Gently Weeps is
both a documentary and book on slum demolitions through the eyes of
the Yamuna Pushta (Delhi) episode of 2004, where the High Court
ordered demolition of 40,000 homes.
Anuradha
Miraji chatted
with Bharucha on the film and his take on filmmaking.
Released along with a film of the same name, Yamuna Gently Weeps is
a visual and analytical journey through the process of displacement.
The strength of Bharuch's work is that he supplements the story of
displacement with excellent analysis by many who have been
intimately involved in the struggle. The later section of the book
has interviews with activists, planners, sociologists and lawyers
that answer many of the questions the first half of the book raises.
In Yamuna Gently Weeps, the director, through the eyes of those who
lost it all, tells a heartrending tale of tears, courage,
determination and most importantly, brings to light, the hollowness
of the system and all that which was once was held, sacred and
beyond reproach. The role (or the lack of it), of the judiciary, the
media, those in Power and the implementing agencies are brought to
light.
Ruzbeh Bharucha's book and documentary film, Yamuna
Gently Weeps, on Delhi's Yamuna Pushta slum demolition, is the
story of faulty urban planning.
What takes Ruzbeh’s work several notches higher than
mere description of an event is that he lays out the suffering and
trauma of the slum-dwellers. There are poignant interviews with
people like Pagal Baba who built a temple without any recourse to
funds, or Shakeel, an artist, whose livelihood was put at stake, or
a single mother who does not know where to go.
My God is a Juvenile Delinquent has its cynical, ironic, even funny
moments but at its core is an outrage at how, irrespective of remand
homes and psychiatrists, damage to children's psyche is irreparable
in country where juvenile justice, is far from just.
In My God Is A
Juvenile Delinquent (Sainathann
Communication), Ruzbeh N. Bharucha tells heart-rending stories of
boys who have unknowingly committed crimes of various nature,
including small thefts, breaking glass, picking fruit from someone
else’s garden or even quietly roaming the roads. While the book is
grim and serious, Bharucha’s brilliant writing style keeps one
going.
The book is a noteworthy effort by author and documentary filmmaker
Ruzbeh Bharucha, primarily in its intent.
In My God is a Juvenile Delinquent, author and documentary filmmaker
Ruzbeh N. Bharucha examines
the plight of incarcerated children in India — their personal
stories, the inability to locate justice, the loss of their
childhood. As the tone of Bharucha’s responses to JAI
ARJUN SINGH’s questions shows, he feels very strongly about the
subject.
Ruzbeh N. Bharucha's
book Yamuna Gently Weeps takes the reader into the lives of those
poor families, whose part, present and future, were brutally
demolished when the settlement was razed to the ground in 2004. In
this book, it becomes apparent that Bharucha has a heart for the
less fortunate. His writting style is edgy, polemical and intensely
compeling.
Two years ago, Ruzbeh
N. Bharucha, a documentary film-maker from Mumbai, was all set to
make a film about leprosy victims.
He'd completed a film called "Shadows in Cages" about women and
children locked in prison and he was pleased with its outcome. It
had received critical acclaim and improved the lives of some
prisoners.
Author-filmmaker Ruzbeh Bharucha's work on the demolition of India's
largest slum is making news at human rights film fests It's a
heart-wrenching tale of razed homes and 35,000 dislocated
families-the demolition of Yamuna Pushta, one of the oldest and
largest slums in India, located on the three-kilometre stretch along
the Yamuna river in Delhi.
Yamuna Gently Weeps is the story of one of the biggest and oldest
slums in Delhi and in India, called Yamuna Pushta. The author, also
through the eyes of those who lost it all, tells a heartrending tale
of tears, courage, determination and most importantly, brings to
light, the hollowness of the system and all that, which was once was
held, sacred and beyond reproach.
Born with a "Naipaulian"
hatred for filth, dirt and clumsiness, I ignored for full three
years the existence of the Yamuna Pusta slum, despite navigating
through the ITO bridge regularly. That is, until the day my bike had
a flat tyre and I found myself near the slum. |
