Maya \u2018Parijat\u2019 is a bilingual author whose engagement with the creative expression spans over two decades, embracing romance, fiction, poetry, short stories, and biographies. Her work is known for its emotional exactness, layered psychological insight, and a reflective tone that bridges the intimate and the universal. She approaches life stories not as compilations of events, but as meditations on the forces\u2014inner and outer\u2014that shape a person\u2019s art and being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What do you get when a senior bureaucrat moonlights as a Kathak virtuoso? In Shovana\u2019s case\u2014raised eyebrows, dropped jaws, and the occasional\u2014\u2018Files and footwork?\u2019, \u2018Do you sign files mid-spin?\u2019 \u2018Meetings in a lehenga?\u2019, \u2018Do your staff clap in tala when you walk in?\u2019 Her answer: discipline, ruthless time management, and zero overlap\u2026 though the idea of a meeting with rhythmic tatkaar was tempting. But this isn\u2019t just a story of multitasking\u2014it\u2019s about making \u2018Why not both?\u2019 a life motto. Shovana didn\u2019t just juggle two demanding careers\u2014she rewrote the rulebook. Passionate about dance, fascinated by physics and maths, she chose both and excelled. She married Austrian ambassador Dr Herbert Traxl on her own terms, balancing two cultures, two careers, and a long-distance marriage with equal grace. In the 1970s, she even broke taboo by giving mukhagni to her father\u2014an act of fierce love and quiet rebellion. This book is more than her story. It\u2019s a challenge to every \u2018either-or\u2019 in life, a celebration of passion and profession coexisting. The book asks the only question worth asking: Why choose, when you can have it all? It enters the tatva of classical traditions, where art whispers life\u2019s philosophy and endures beyond fleeting glory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[102,69],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10166","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-art-culture","7":"product_cat-new-arrivals","8":"pa_book-author-dr-maya-parijat","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/10166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=10166"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=10166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}