‘‘Honthon Par Chaandni’ is a compilation of Gulshan Madhur’s published and unpublished free verse poems, rhyming lyrical creations as well as verses especially written to enhance the presentation of All India Radio, Delhi’s once immensely popular program of film songs ‘Aap Kee Pasand’. The poems, apart from being expressions of the poet’s very personal emotions and reactions, are also comments and statements on the life and the world in general. It can be argued though that the expression of even the most personal can also be a comment or statement on the world around us, can’t it?

Poems have not been compiled chronologically or in the order of their creation, nor according to their subject matter. They have been, however, divided in three parts for the sake of convenience. The first part ‘Swachchhand’ consists of free verse poems. ‘Chhand-Bandh’ comprises rhyming verses in the form of geets and ghazals. The third part has three poems in the lighter vein, compiled under the title ‘Chheente’.

‘Honthon Par Chaandni’ is the first collection of Gulshan Madhur’s poems.