{"id":18349,"date":"2026-06-10T11:54:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/?post_type=story&#038;p=18349"},"modified":"2026-06-10T11:54:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:54:42","slug":"aneesh-bakshi","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/story\/aneesh-bakshi\/","title":{"rendered":"Aneesh Bakshi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For some, the impulse to record a life story begins close to home. When Aneesh Bakshi\u2019s wife suggested he write his memoir \u2013 inspired by her own father having done the same \u2013 the seed was planted. What followed was a journey that became far more than a record of the past; it was a way for Aneesh to share his hard-won wisdom with the next generation and a source of solace for him through a time of profound personal loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aneesh\u2019s completed LifeBook now serves as a lasting legacy for his children and grandchildren and as a record not only of a life lived, but of the lessons and love woven through it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"A conversation with Aneesh Bakshi: On personal history, the spark behind it, and what endures\" width=\"1300\" height=\"731\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jouQkFIxxEA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"507\" height=\"744\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Aneesh-Book.png\" alt=\"My Life's Journey to Self-Realization, a LifeBook private memoir by Aneesh Bakshi\" class=\"wp-image-18376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Aneesh-Book.png 507w, https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Aneesh-Book-204x300.png 204w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Aneesh\u2019s LifeBook, <em>My Life&#8217;s Journey to Self-Realization<\/em>, was completed in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover how one man turned personal loss and lifelong wisdom into a legacy his family will treasure for ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":18359,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"Author Testimonial: Aneesh Bakshi | LifeBook Memoirs | Memoirs & Autobiographies","_seopress_titles_desc":"Discover how one man turned personal loss and lifelong wisdom into a legacy his family will treasure for ever.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"content-type":""},"story-category":[234],"class_list":["post-18349","story","type-story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","story-category-author-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story\/18349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/story"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"story-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story-category?post=18349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}