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Vikas Parihar lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He graduated with a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, specializing in System Design, Power Systems, and Control Systems from California State University, Los Angeles. He studied Management, Leadership, and Negotiation at Harvard Business School and the MIT Sloan School of Management in Massachusetts. He is the author of short stories, poems, songs, novellas, and novels.
He started writing at the age of 14. His first poem was an existential observation of his surroundings and an inquiry about the absolute. Many of the poems included in his collections were written over the last two decades.
His published works include nine poetry collections: "The Elements of Beauty," "The Beautiful Memories," "A Love Letter to Time," "Poems for Young Eyes and Curious Minds," "A River in My Heart," "The Poems and the Poet," "Time," "The Poems of Everyday," and "The Absolute, the Cause of All Causes: Lord Krishna, His Devotees, and His Abode," as well as a short story collection, "The Modern Man." His works have received positive reviews and admiration from Readers' Favorite, Kirkus Reviews, and Publishers Weekly's BookLife.
His books are available in twelve countries on Amazon websites, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Japan, Canada, and Australia. His books are also sold in the United Kingdom by Waterstones Booksellers.
Reviewed by Emily-Jane Hills Orford for Readers' Favorite
Do you like math? How about Lego? Did you know that Lego was created in Denmark by a man named Ole? In Vikas Parihar and Rudra Parihar’s Poems for Young Eyes and Curious Minds, you’ll learn more about Lego, like: “Every brick tells a tale,/ We build and break, then start anew,/ With each creation, our dreams come true,/ In a Lego land, where fun’s the clue.” You’ll also read about things you love, like the beach, your teachers, school, and so much more. Life is full of fun, playful adventures, and so many things that marvel the mind, like how electricity works and why the dinosaurs disappeared.
Vikas Parihar and Rudra Parihar’s book, Poems for Young Eyes and Curious Minds, is a poetry collection like no other. The anthology is full of rhyming verse tributes to the things that inspire and interest young people. Not only will young readers learn something new about the simple things in life, but they’ll enjoy the rhyming game of poetry and perhaps start writing some of their own stories in verse. The collection is interesting, too, as it covers a wide range of topics, many of which don’t appear to connect, other than to the theme of life and all that attracts the attention of young people. Not only does this book make the topics interesting, but the material covered is educational and told in such a way that young readers will learn something and perhaps even retain this newfound knowledge. I loved the illustrations which are as full of joy, adventure, and fun as the poems themselves.
