Here are more than 30 books on rituals and traditions penned in Hindi by Suryakantadevi Mohota.

Birth, growing up, festivals, marriage, and even death;  every phase of our life is one of celebration.

Which is why there are rituals surrounding these, rituals that connect us with our tradition, heritage and our own roots.

Yet we are on the verge of losing these!

Because these are primarily rooted in the spoken word. We learn rituals from watching our elders, as part of our life and growing up. Hence in these times when the nuclear families and globalization is on the rise, we are on the verge of losing knowledge of our rituals and traditions, and to a grave extent, of our own historicity.

What makes these books exceptional is because these are penned by a lady who remains an enigma.

How did someone who never ever went to school became an author of such caliber?

As a child, she learnt the Hindi alphabet from a tutor who came home. Yet, her lack of schooling did not stand in the way of the great destiny which unfolded.

As she lived, she learnt, from her elders, from temples and priests, from her pilgrimages and by touching her own inner wisdom. And it is from this intangible source that her writings emerged and evolved….

A list of books written by her-

1.   12 mahine ke vrat aur tyohar.

2.   Antya karma vidhi

3.   84 kos ki brij yatra

4.   Arti sangrah

5.   Archanavali

6.   Bhajan ratna (5 book series)

7.   Daan (2 book series)

8.   Divya upchar (2 book series)

9.   Gangaur puja

10. Geet mala (6 book series)

11. Janam

12. Kanyadaan

13. Nitya stuti

14. Pak pallav (4 book series)

15. Puja

16. Snan

17. Teerth yatra

18. Teerth

19. Tulsi puja

20. Vrat

21. Yantra-Tantra-Mantra