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"To Punima life is a dream, nothing is real, we pass through the serial of contemporary world, her poems are replete with similes and metaphors which
phantasies, when one dream breaks, we awake in an another dream and so we beautify and chisel her work. It is just beginning, this composition is a very
are deceived time and again, reality remains beyond our approach, to her life is glaring gesture of her bright future, time is fixed when she will be in limelight,
like an piece of onion, we go on peeling off it a layer by a layer but in the end get maybe I would not be there to see her relishing the moment."
nothing, she is very true in her verdict."
She sincerely feels that whatever she has earned today is through the other
"Life was only a dream, And one day, We would wake up, Alive on a different strong women who have touched her life and made her who she is. She felt a
strong presence of her mother who narrated her stories from scriptures and
Climate and a new flowing stream." (Purnima, "Life's a Waking Dream")
books and taught her the importance of honesty and courage which she follows
Shanazar adds, "A young poetess like Purnima must have nourished a desire of in whatever she does. Who also introduced her to great Hindi stalwarts like
limelight, to be known in the world, but in fact she discards the idea and rests Premchand, Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, Gyanendra, Maithilsharan Gupt and
her mind on the cushion of contentment and simplicity, she wants to go many more. Her guide during research, Prof. Vanashree who is Emeritus
through lanes of the world anonymously:" Professor, Department of English, Banaras Hindu University is also a major
influence on her career. Dr. Bina Singh, currently heading the Department of
"Let me live unseen, unknown, Unwanted let me be. Away from neighbour's
Vasant Kanya Mahavidyalaya entered as a fresh zephyr in her life and re-kindled
prying eye, With an unremarkable identity. Let me be a washed pebble In the
her warmth for reading and writing poetry. Her first collection of poems In
world's ever-flowing Sea. Let me be a reckless bark, Floating in anonymity. ..Let
Search of (Me)aning: Poetry by Purnima was a result of this association. She
me drift, Invisibly as a God's particle, In the vast radiance of the galaxy. "
admires other strong women like Dr. Rachna srivastava, Principal, Vasant
(Purnima, "Anonymity") The desire of her anonymity is not causeless, it is very
Kanya Mahavidyalaya. She feels that any woman who is doing something for
profound and mystic, those who perish all desires and surrender their existence
the cause of humanity needs to be admired.
to God, requiring nothing, in fact they get all, their names transcend time and
place, they live perpetually as in nothingness lies absolute thingness. It is my
good fortune that I was acquainted to Purnima Singh, a poetess of talent, she
writes her verse with a flow, she goes on convincing the reader, rather she rides
the reader's mind, keeps it in her grips, each line of her poems, doesn't lose
connection with the previous one, her thoughts are coherent but sometimes she
unexpectedly puts on the apron of mysticism and explains deeper significance
of her themes than apparent realities.

He concludes, "Purnima as she is a teacher of English Literature and widely
read student of literature, she pays much heed to her linguistic techniques,
syntax and grammatical composition of thought, her imagery is synthetic
which is supported by several figures of speech, the poetic diction she uses is
simple yet splendid, she deliberately avoids grandiloquence and pomposity as
she knows well, it may spoil the poetic effect as they are not needed by the

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