In Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert undertakes a spiritual journey in the wake of a bitter divorce. Most of us, although touched by the book’s earnestness, soon forgot about it. But for 28-year-old Riddhima Bhatt, the book opened up a new chapter in her life.
“I had a miscarriage in the sixth month of my pregnancy when my umbilical cord got entangled around the baby’s neck leading to the obvious,” says Bhatt, who immediately slipped into a depressive state, questioning not only the tragic accident but also her ‘very state of being’.
Disconnected from the outside world, she began to read books on spirituality, including Gilbert’s semi-autobiographical work. This was a year ago. “Ever since then, I’ve practised partial fasting where I only drink fresh fruit juices and eat boiled vegetables five days a week,” says Bhatt, a Cuffe Parade resident who has been married for 10 years. But for this homemaker, her ritual fasting has nothing to do with religious beliefs. Instead, it was purely “a way to regain, and more importantly, retain emotional balance.”
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