Paal Le Ik Rog Nadaan is the first collection of Ghazals by Gautam Rajrishi- a name that has emerged as a refreshing change in modern poetry of Hindi Literature. Who would have imagined that a serving Colonel of the Indian Army would introduce us to a new style of Ghazals and that is precisely what he does, with ease and panache...dismantling all the stereotyped images we have harboured in our minds. He picks up his words from our daily life, giving them a sublime bliss that we have never seen before in Ghazals. He is as much at ease in describing a moonlit lonely night on our borders, as he is while reminding us of the philosophical context of the simple act of a cigarette dangling from a lover's lips. Each verse of Colonel Gautam's poetry has a different spell of sorcery which is bound to pierce your heart sometimes with pain, sometimes with joy and most of the times with sheer nostalgia.