India, Nov. 5 -- There is an unlikely connection between Mary Oliver's poems and Charulata Chittol, the protagonist of Rahul Bhattacharya's new novel Railsong. I watched the PBS documentary - Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World - about the life and work of the best selling American poet and I found myself reading Oliver's most famous poems, which offer, often, that moment when a person recognizes a voice that is their own. In The Journey, she wrote about the moment when, "you finally knew what you had to do, and began." Or the realisation, as she wrote in When Death Comes, "I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened, / or full of argument." She wrote about nature, and about answering the quiet inner summons to freedom. "...