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Signs from the Universe — or not!

An anecdote from her life about the signs she received exactly when she needed them, and her current take on it.

FOMO Kills Authenticity, or Is It AI?

On heart-led working style, and the importance of authentic communication in the age of AI.

Overthinking and the Triple A Formula

How overthinking eats away at time — and a working formula for dealing with it.

I Made Another Hard Choice, and the Grass Is Greener Now

On a one-day Vipassana meditation experience at Dhamma Paphulla, Bengaluru.

On the Thrill of Secrecy, of Love and Writing

Late nights, early mornings, and the pull to write across every decade of life.

I Overstayed My Welcome, and the Discomfort Became My New Comfort Zone

On how choices — and comfort zones — shift with time.

Author Page — Sanhita Baruah

Her contributor page on The Times of India's blogs platform.

Author Page — Sanhita Baruah

Her contributor page on CNBC-TV18, from her time working with the network.

Because You Are a Woman

A personal essay pushing back on the trend of angry, women-blaming articles — often written, she notes, by women themselves.

Atrocity in a Metro City

A personal essay opening on a small, telling moment of city life.

The Perfect Love

On the "utopian dreams" young people carry about what perfect love should look like.

Kaleidoscope — Different Strokes for Different Folk

Her review of the "Kaleidoscope" anthology, the same collection she also contributed a short story to.

The Other Side of the Bed: A Review

A review of Bhavya Kaushik's 2013 novel, published by Parlance Publishers.

Silent Voices: Poems by Rohit Shetty

A review of Rohit Shetty's poetry collection, published by Leadstart Publishing.

"Many of these poems are painful to read but they still made me smile with recognition. It's a comforting thing to see yourself reflected on the page. It does that thing which good poetry does best — reflects your own unique experience whilst speaking universal truths. It's a book that embraces all emotions, and the joy of expressing them in the act of writing. Throughout the book, what shines brightest is a genuine, generous and inspirational faith in the act of reading and writing, how it carries us through the hardest times, how close it is to love."

Clare Shaw (they/them) is a British poet with four collections published by Bloodaxe Books, a Northern Writers' Award winner, and a Poetry Society Book of the Year for "Towards a General Theory of Love."

"Sanhita's genius is that she uses her poetry not just to inject hope but also to bring a freshness to a deeply familiar healing process." Save's fuller review notes that most people either wallow in pain or deny it exists — and that "The Art of Healing" offers a fresh, effective framework for working through it, using a three-part approach of Awareness, Acceptance, and Allowance to guide readers through recognizing and managing pain. He calls it rare for a writer so young to have this command of both thought and language, and points to her closing line — "life returns what it takes in more ways than one" — as capturing her core quality: an unshakeable lean toward hope.

Titled "A Psychiatrist Inside the Mind," this review argues that in an age of shrinking attention spans, poetry succeeds where dense self-help prose fails — and that Sanhita's slim, 84-page collection is a case in point. Passey walks through the book's three-part structure (Awareness, Acceptance, Allowance), praising how it never insists on one "right" way to heal, instead giving readers room to find their own meaning in each poem. He closes by comparing a poet to a psychiatrist inside the mind — someone whose lines open conversations that go on long after the page is closed.

Writing on Banani Vista, Roshni Bhattacharya describes "The Art of Letting Go" (Notion Press) as 92 pages that readers keep returning to, the way certain poems pull you back to wherever you got lost in them the first time. She calls the collection a book for seekers — poetry on love, moving on, and making peace with life — and singles out Sanhita's emotional honesty as both deeply relatable and distinct. She also praises the book's production values, from the cover design down to the paper quality and typeface.

In a follow-up post, she adds that the varying line spacing and alignment across the poems feels intentional — a visual echo of the different emotional states Sanhita must have moved through while writing them. She singles out several poems by name: "Instead," on how sorrow can settle into the body; "A Night's Conversation," on being with someone who accepts your past but doesn't quite feel part of your present or future; "Falling," on holding onto hope even when it feels like the world has turned away; "Sunrise," which touches on mental health and the choice to keep going; and "Grow" — her favorite — about not letting others define the pace of your own growth. She closes by calling the collection an easy recommendation, for yourself or as a gift, and says she's looking forward to more of Sanhita's work.

The post also recaps Sanhita's background: raised in Assam, writing since age ten, the blog "Pens and Pages" since 2011, an MBA from MDI Gurgaon, and balancing a corporate career with her writing.

Sameer Gudhate's review frames "The Art of Letting Go" as a book for solitude rather than escape — something closer to quiet company on a hard night than a distraction from it. Having read Sanhita's earlier "The Art of Grieving," he approaches this collection as its natural next chapter, and finds it lands even closer to home than he expected.

He walks through its three-part structure — Hope, Closure, and Love — reading it as an emotional arc rather than a fixed narrative, moving like tides between short, sharp verses and longer, conversational ones. He praises the simplicity of the language and points to specific images, like a shipwreck standing in for fragile hope, as places where the poems land hardest despite their plainness. Two poems get called out directly: "Burning Bridges," which he found quietly furious, and "Together," which left him smiling at how love can be both fragile and lasting.

He compares the collection's emotional directness to Neruda and Rupi Kaur, and closes by naming its central strength as balance — pain without wallowing, hope without sugarcoating — while noting a few poems lean on repetition that could have used more editorial polish. His overall verdict: 4 out of 5, calling it "deeply human" rather than flawless.

Snehal Singh calls "The Art of Healing" pathbreaking in how it guides readers through pain using its three-part structure of Awareness, Acceptance, and Allowance, helping them recognize, accept, and ultimately move past what hurts. The review highlights Sanhita's message that healing takes patience, effort, trust, and time, paired with reassurance that hope endures even in difficult stretches, and praises her writing as simple yet meaningful, gentle with firm nudges to keep progressing. It closes with a strong recommendation for anyone pursuing self-awareness, self-love, and personal growth.