Fall Like A Rose Petal
For the happynesswalas™, Fall Like A Rose Petal , and its Tamil translation, Uthirum Roja Ithazh Pola, are spiritual offerings – from them to anyone who is willing to pause and reflect on Life!
Fall Like A Rose Petal is a spiritual journey. It is the true story of AVIS’ and Vaani’s Life. It captures learnings from the excruciating, fascinating, Life-changing, experience – a crippling bankruptcy – that they are still going through.
The book, that chronicles their journey in the initial six-odd years (2007~2013) of their enduring bankruptcy, explores the nature and continuum of Life. There is no beginning to the story. There is no end either. There are simply experiences. Of hopelessness. Of fear. Of insolvency. Of pennilessness. And also of faith, patience, love, companionship, abundance and soul. Of integrity and of leading a principled Life, despite temptations to take the easy way out of painful or messy situations. This book has been written, in the form of letters from AVIS to his two children, to share how Vaani and he have learned to be happy despite their circumstances.
Important, Fall Like A Rose Petal was born out of AVIS’ and Vaani’s philosophy to be useful even when they were not successful. It reflects their idea of employing their pain to serve a higher purpose – of Inspiring ‘Happyness’™ – so that others need not necessarily have to go through what they have gone through – and are still going through.
There’s an interesting story behind why Fall Like A Rose Petal is named so. Read about it here (2-min read) or watch a video on it here (viewing time: 6.54 minutes). Fall Like A Rose Petal was first published by Westland in August 2014. The publishing rights are currently owned by AVIS and Vaani.
In 2017, legendary Tamil writer Charukesi reached out to AVIS, offering to translate Fall Like A Rose Petal: “This is a story that must reach many more people AVIS. Let me do this for you and Vaani.”
Acclaimed writer and Tamil literary icon Sivasankari, while writing the foreword for the translated work, told AVIS and Vaani: “The essence of ‘Fall Like A Rose Petal’ can be captured in Tamil only with the title ‘Uthirum Roja Ithazh Pola’!” Charukesi too loved the title. And so it stayed.
Serendipitously, Dr.Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti came forward to sponsor the book’s first print run. It so happened that Charukesi passed away in January 2019. At an event got together to celebrate Charukesi’s memory in February 2019, noted writer V.Ramnarayan referred to Uthirum Roja Ithazh Pola as Charukesi’s last work. Hearing this, and noting that that the book was awaiting a publisher, Nalli, spontaneously, compassionately, offered to support the work. And that’s how, miraculously, just as everything else in AVIS’ and Vaani’s Life has happened, Uthirum Roja Ithazh Pola was launched in October 2019. Speaking at the launch, Nalli said, “After Gandhi’s ‘My Experiments With Truth’, this is the most honest book I have read in all my Life!”
The book, that chronicles their journey in the initial six-odd years (2007~2013) of their enduring bankruptcy, explores the nature and continuum of Life. There is no beginning to the story. There is no end either. There are simply experiences. Of hopelessness. Of fear. Of insolvency. Of pennilessness. And also of faith, patience, love, companionship, abundance and soul. Of integrity and of leading a principled Life, despite temptations to take the easy way out of painful or messy situations. This book has been written, in the form of letters from AVIS to his two children, to share how Vaani and he have learned to be happy despite their circumstances.
Important, Fall Like A Rose Petal was born out of AVIS’ and Vaani’s philosophy to be useful even when they were not successful. It reflects their idea of employing their pain to serve a higher purpose – of Inspiring ‘Happyness’™ – so that others need not necessarily have to go through what they have gone through – and are still going through.
There’s an interesting story behind why Fall Like A Rose Petal is named so. Read about it here (2-min read) or watch a video on it here (viewing time: 6.54 minutes). Fall Like A Rose Petal was first published by Westland in August 2014. The publishing rights are currently owned by AVIS and Vaani.
In 2017, legendary Tamil writer Charukesi reached out to AVIS, offering to translate Fall Like A Rose Petal: “This is a story that must reach many more people AVIS. Let me do this for you and Vaani.”
Acclaimed writer and Tamil literary icon Sivasankari, while writing the foreword for the translated work, told AVIS and Vaani: “The essence of ‘Fall Like A Rose Petal’ can be captured in Tamil only with the title ‘Uthirum Roja Ithazh Pola’!” Charukesi too loved the title. And so it stayed.
Serendipitously, Dr.Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti came forward to sponsor the book’s first print run. It so happened that Charukesi passed away in January 2019. At an event got together to celebrate Charukesi’s memory in February 2019, noted writer V.Ramnarayan referred to Uthirum Roja Ithazh Pola as Charukesi’s last work. Hearing this, and noting that that the book was awaiting a publisher, Nalli, spontaneously, compassionately, offered to support the work. And that’s how, miraculously, just as everything else in AVIS’ and Vaani’s Life has happened, Uthirum Roja Ithazh Pola was launched in October 2019. Speaking at the launch, Nalli said, “After Gandhi’s ‘My Experiments With Truth’, this is the most honest book I have read in all my Life!”