Author:- Niddhi Poddar & Sushil Poddar
Publisher :- Rupa publication
Genre:- Based on true story
Blurb:-
Can a disease, more importantly, cancer, be a potent tool of self-evolution for both, the person who suffers from it, and his/her caregivers, especially parents? The value of good health is realized when it no more remains with us. The journey to salvage the lost friend can still offer myriad opportunities of redemption and self-discovery. It is up to us how we decide to tread this formidable path leading to self-actualization.
Time has made us realize that it is not fair to stereotype a person suffering from cancer from the point of view of cure or recovery. Many a time, such stereotyping comes from our own society, and sometimes, ironically, from the medical fraternity, for its inability to go beyond a point, after which you feel you are condemned and vegetative. All these negativities passively entrap the patients and their parents in the viciousness of the disease where they die many times before the actual death. This is the worst form of cancer which has plagued our mindset.
In the case of Divyansh Atman, the authors’ son, it was not so. Divyansh was the embodiment of courage and self-determination in the face of adversities. His life journey shows us how the path of opportunities can still be paved in the middle of adversities. He lived a big and a meaningful life that made a huge impact on the lives of people around him.
Cancer can bring in self-evolution, both for the sufferer and his caregivers

My view of the book:-
Blaze by Niddhi Poddar and Sushil Poddar is a book based on true events.
The story is about a boy named Divyansh Aatman who is the protagonist of the story and the story is based on his struggles in life and how he faced it all.
The story is dictated by his mother who is also a very strong character and portrays both motherly emotions as well emotions of a fighter.
Divyansh always suffered from a long dued illness since his childhood and lost all his boyish charms because of the treatments he had to go through.His mother was always worried about him and that’s why they even had to keep on changing thier home for his treatments.
In the story his mother describes everything from when he was first diagnosed with cancer, visiting different places for his treatment and what hopeless answers they got wherever they went. She has described every single bit of the journey and it was really heart breaking for me to go through all this till the end as I myself went through all this when my father was suffering from cancer.
I felt so much connected to the story as I have faced similar experience in my life. The story is very raw and there are so many powerful emotions in the story.
I would say hats off to the mother that she had such courage to write everything in a story and go through all this again. I have faced this 9 years ago but still don’t have the courage to recall all that pain again.
This story has really powerful characters which show us that along with emotions, strength to go through all this pain is also required to fight such battles of life.
It shows that how a disease can break you and make you at the very same time.
I would recommend this book to each and every individual.
I think this book is not supposed to be reviewed as I feel I don’t have the right to review somebody else’s struggles and their life. I would just say that, while reading this I really felt proud for the mother who had the courage to write this amazing piece.