The Battle Cry: A Little Book of Comfort and Strength

By Niti Majethia

With The Battle Cry, Majethia takes her readers on a deeply personal, stirring journey that evokes a humbling truth: strength, joy and love can be found in the most unlikely places, and often in the strangest, sincerest ways.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: Apr 22, 2020
• ISBN: 9781543706741

Niti Majethia

Niti Majethia is an international award-winning writer, editor and spoken word performer. She has been published on various media platforms and has performed her poetry around the world. As of 2020, Majethia is studying at The University of Texas at Austin where she has been hailed as “UT’s Poet Prodigy” by Orange Magazine.

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Contents

Welcome to your safe place

The battle cry

Acknowledgements

About the author

I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart.

Vincent Van Gogh

Dedicated to my parents — Shilpa

and Hemant Majethia.

Thank you for giving me the world.

My mother’s fiery affection,

deep enough to drown the sea.

For she loves with a love

that one cannot simply see —

it is the heart that is set free.

My father’s golden heart is the hymn

that inspires the moon every night —

a lullaby that rocks me to sleep

and gives me the power to dream.

When you have parents

that redefine the meaning

of life itself,

you know