Twinn Swan

The Maha Kumbabishegam 2025 of Sri Sivan Temple gathered twenty thousand people in a single purpose, their presence inseparable from the temple’s energy and the unfolding of what must come. From this convergence, KINGFISHER came into being.

The book of poetry was born within the sacred design of Sri Sivan Temple, where every element of the architecture reflects the cosmos itself. The carvings of Shiva as Nataraja stand as a powerful force—alive with intention and energy, signalling the shift that is already on its way, waiting patiently to gain momentum.

Women in spirituality must be seen in their full complexity, as bearers of sacred knowledge as well as leaders within a societal framework in need of profound and long overdue change. Writing as a woman in spiritual discourse, I have faced the restrictive squeeze of expectation—where womanhood is restricted to motherhood, a single, defining and confining role.

KINGFISHER challenges that premise, asserting that the feminine is a wellspring of power and wisdom divinely destined to go beyond traditional boundaries. The book’s dedication to Shiva as Nataraja reflects this vision. Nataraja’s dance heralds the end of stagnation and the arrival of a new era—a force that goes beyond patriarchal limits and embodies a cycle where destruction births a new creation. This is a dance of radical metamorphosis, fierce and flowing, defying any fixed identity steeped only in traditional orthodoxy.

At the temple’s consecration, twenty thousand souls gathered, each indivisible and yet inseparable from the whole—a presence both overwhelming and intimate. KINGFISHER’s origin is rooted in this moment when the threshold to something new was crossed. With KINGFISHER, I offer an invitation—to go beyond the confines of one’s limitations, to witness and participate in the very change that Nataraja’s dance summons and to step beyond the familiar and into the horizon of limitless freedom.

Dive deeper into the journey of this book… Let the story unfold within you. Here’s the Goodreads link.