Kabhi Khushi me chalakte, Kabhi Gam me ludkhkate, Aansu

Shri Rakesh Saini was born on 27 March 1964, in a village near Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India, in a middle-class family. He completed his graduation in Electrical Engineering from the prestigious University of Roorkee (Now IIT) in 1984. After serving two years at Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) during 1985-1987, he joined Military Engineer Services (MES) as an Indian Defence Service of Engineers Officer, in 1987. He also obtained the Masters of Engineering (Power Systems) degree from his alma mater, in 1997. He is working in Defence Infrastructure Sector for last thirty-seven years. Reading, all kinds of literature and writing; in both English and Hindi; is his passion. Rakesh developed his penchant for Hindi poetry at a tender age and started writing poems, for consigning them to dust bins, at the age of sixteen. The desire to excel in academics and professional commitments somehow, kept the creative hungers on tight leash. However, the creativity worms, invariably refuse to die the natural death and always crops up with some fresh leash of life. The present endeavour is his effort to bite the bullet. He has sniffed the dust bin in his mind, completed some of the half-written poems and thus compiled all his poetic thought in this second Hindi poetry collection.