About the Author
Janit Gambhir is an author and film maker from India. His past libations of creativity include being a Reiki Master, and a master-trainer for Fire-dancing, Tarot and healing.
In his spare time, you’d probably find him cooking, meditating or doing apothecary things.
About Soot
Soot was originally formed as School of Original Thought, a collective of arts, performance and the esoteric in Mumbai in 2010. Workshops, performances, collaborations and initiations were regular fare with harmonious exchanges of ideas and art forms.The years have groomed and refined, distilled as a clean mirror of the mind.
Extending the vision a dozen years later, Arthat – Mystic Poetry is the first offering as part of the Soot imprint in our new world.
The Soot imprint is a small press advent into the big word world. In so, we will be publishing less than ten titles a year across various genres.
The Soot imprint reflects consciousness, and in so represents the truly engaging and illuminated of perspectives.
Looking to combine the goodness of traditional publishing with the adapted process of contemporary video and audio to our digital age of existence, is the vision we extend.
The latest offering in print is a mythological fantasy called Full circle squared – Archetype of the stars, and it is available in bookstores and sundry.
The next is a treatise of the known stars of the sky across different cultures called ‘Soot of Stars’ and a treatise on the Tarot.
Watch this space.
Apart from publishing, Soot today is geared at divination, creative content and film, with several projects announced shortly.
Alternatively you can mail us – soot@fullcirclesquared.com
If you are a bookstore and would like to stock our books, use the contact form or email.
A coat of quotes and passing poetry
"From the Bhagavata Gita :
"Then, filled with wonder, with hairs standing on end, he, Dhananjaya, (Arjuna), bowing down with his head to the Lord, said with folded hands.Arjuna said: O God, I see in Your body all the gods as also hosts of (various) classes of beings; Brahma the ruler, sitting on a lotus seat, and all the heavenly sages and serpents.I see You as possessed of numerous arms, bellies, mouths and eyes; as having infinite forms all around. O Lord of the Universe, O Cosmic Person, I see not Your limit nor the middle, nor again the beginning!I see You as wearing a crown, wielding a mace, and holding a disc; a mass of brilliance glowing all around, difficult to look at from all sides, possessed of the radiance of the blazing fire, and immeasurable as the sun.You are the Immutable, the supreme One to be known; You are the most perfect repository of this Universe. You are the Imperishable, the Protector of the ever-existing religion; You are the eternal Person. This is my belief.I see You as without beginning, middle and end, possessed of infinite valour, having innumerable arms, having the sun and the moon as eyes, having a mouth like a blazing fire, and heating up this Universe by Your own brilliance.Those very groups of gods enter into You; struck with fear, some extol (You) with joined palms. Groups of great sages and perfected beings praise You with elaborate hymns, saying 'May it be!’" - Chapter 11, Bhagavada Gita.Scene from the Bhagavada Gita as Krishna, the charioteer shows his god-form to the archer hero Arjuna at the field of battle.The Bhagavada Gita is one of the holy books of the Hindu pantheon in India. And this painting and poetry are a scene from the epic battle Mahabharata as Krishna takes on his all powerful form, known as Virat Swaroop."
Virata Swaroop | Bhagavada Gita