Writing to protect our planet and its people
Stay tuned for Balaka Ghosal's upcoming book in July 2025 – Poised and Prepared – 200+ Personal Safety Tips Every Woman Must Know
As a woman, your safety is vulnerable even when you least suspect it. You can avoid such incidents by planning ahead.
Reading this book will help you:
- Make plans to keep trouble at bay
- Identify potential dangers, listed by settings
- Grow your situational and intuitive alertness
- Identify your safe zones and vulnerable areas
- Create safety groups and proactive communities
You can gift this book to a woman to help her avoid dangers and become proactive in protecting others. Even men will benefit from this book — to fortify their families’ safety and to be supportive members of their community.
Growing up in urban India, author Balaka Ghosal faced many difficult moments in the presence of people with dubious intent. These could happen to any woman anywhere on this planet, altering her life forever.
Although Balaka has felt the icy touch of a pistol under her jaw and a dagger at her waist, she is grateful to have been spared the rough endings. Being aware, alert, and equipped helped her replace fear with peace and confidence. She shares her life lessons to support women to live their lives with poise and preparedness.
Here are a few comments from experts who have read the manuscript:
“Prevention is always better than cure. This book is a synopsis of actions women can adopt to prevent violation of their selves and their bodies. This needs to be translated into other languages.”
– Dr. Mousumi De, PA-C, DMSc, MBBS, MPhil, DPH, Public Health Specialist, Certified Correctional Health Physician, high-security prison, North Texas, USA
“This book will help us develop our awareness, reflexes, and judgments… it is an absolutely necessary tool for our society.”
– Sarbari Gupta, Founder and Former Chief Editor of Du-Kool Magazine and an active community empath, California, USA
Get a free PDF called "7 Personal Safety Myths for Women". It's a sneak peek into my upcoming book "Poised and Prepared: 200+ Personal Safety Tips Every Woman Must Know".
Balaka Ghosal: Author, ghostwriter, copywriter...writing to protect the planet and its people.
Books by Balaka Ghosal
Deep Gratitude and Self-Introspection Journal
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade and be thankful you have a drink.
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Every day is new, and you can mark a beginning at any time in your life. It doesn't have to be January to start journaling with resolutions and introspection.
The goal is to remain consistent and taking the next baby step forward.
This journal is only for about a month and some more. If you are not writing daily, the date line is for you to fill in.
Maybe you're just going to a retreat to work on your gratefulness journaling. Or you're delving in deep into some healing self-introspection.
So, this could be for a specific goal or a 21-day challenge, for example.
Keeping it short makes it cheaper, lighter, and easier to carry around.
This paperback journal could slip into your backpack and help you travel light. You can use a new one for every month if you are a daily writer.
And at the end of this journal, there's a note page for complete reflections on this period of journaling. It will help you reflect on your overall feeling from this experience of mindful gratitude and self-introspection.
It is a wonderful journey working on trying to become a better human.
It takes us higher than where we had started off. Just as Jagadguru Kripaluji Maharaj implored that we try to become better not just project ourselves to look better in other people's eyes.
It's in our rising from our past, being a better self, having more self-control on our impulses and cravings, that we become aware of our soulful presence.
Whether you want to flow like water around the obstacles of life, finding your way gently gurgling, or if you want to be stolidly planted as a rock to withstand the strongest storms, it is entirely your calling.
The Gratitude and Self-Introspection journal helps you be aware of all the little dollops of grace that lie on your way. Each one of them leading you to the fulfillment of your life’s innate purpose.
Wishing you many happy, bold steps toward it.
Off to Dadu's
The Simple Joys of Life are Free and Priceless.
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Off to Dadu’s captures a series of moments that grown-ups have had to leave behind and the children to peek into their parent’s simpler days of fun without any gadgets. Written in lyrical free verse, the book talks of the happy days of simplicity, when life was less cluttered with technology and constant entertainment. Even as it narrates about an era when life flowed with the rhythm of nature, Off to Dadu’s has a spice for every age. It’s tough to brand it only as a children’s book.
Off to Dadu’s reflects on human relationships nurtured in loving without fancy or waste. When grandparents are anchored in wisdom and grace, the values simply tumbled through the generations, gracing everyone with the reassurance of love and nurturing. Dadu and Didima’s stable assurance of dignity and impartial affection set the tone of harmony into the new generations.
Life was just as good, or way better without the gadgets and gimmicks of the overloaded modern life. Joys were tucked into simple moments of wondering and wandering, in loving and laughing, in making mistakes and discoveries.
For non-Amazon customers
In case you are not an Amazon customer and have received this book as a gift from someone, a review on Goodreads site would be just as helpful.
This book is available on many sites where you can leave a review. The more the merrie! Leave reviews on multiple sites if you so wish.
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My ABC Book of Karma
When life comes to its major crossroads, you might want to take the right turn.
My ABC Book of Karma explains the karmic theory as explained in the Gita in Hinduism. The words chosen carefully for every letter will help in increasing an intentional analysis of the readers' inner feelings and help them make well thought-out decisions. However, each reader's spiritual journey is unique. Same for their karma footprint. (The best way to spell out the word is Karm. Even the pronunciation is cropped without the short sound of a in the end.) However, the world knows it as Karma, hence its use in the book. In several places, the original spelling has been used to sow the idea in the readers' mind.
By Karma, the world usually related to behavioral goodness. It guides us to believing in good begetting good, for what goes around comes around. But there's a whole lot more in the philosophy of Karma. As you work on understanding the philosophy of Karma, or if you're working with children to help them build their vocabulary, it's best to understand, use, and apply the concepts in daily decision-making. It will help in rising above confusion and conflict.
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