From The Future

By Smeetha Bhoumik

Smeetha Bhoumik Guest blogger #loveofwriting She remembers it as a large airy room with ample sunlight splashing the pearl-white walls with gold, the windows covered with flower laden trellises. Looking in from the future after so many seasons of rain and shine, birth and death, it appears like a gently bobbing assemblage of artefacts, notions,…

Why Do I Write?

By Dr. Romila Chitturi

Dr. Romila Chitturi Guest blogger #loveofwriting My life’s initial journey was to find a passion, and I found it. As I look back on my school days in 1996, I realize that all throughout those long years, I was searching for something. I was trying to find my true self, trying to find my calling.…

Being a Woman or Being a Writer

By Nirmala Pillai

Being a woman, I am already representing the first half of humanity living in my own ecosystem glad to be a female celebrating the difference – with my experiences, histories, myths, needs, social constructs and patterns. Being a woman in India is an irony and a paradox as a writer. It is a raw celebration…

For Productive Writing in 2023 – What I’m doing

By Vandana Sehgal

No, I am not participating in NaNoWriMo 2023 to upgrade my productivity. That’s not my cup of tea. I am working on my third book, and I’m making my own rules for my writing plans. For all those who don’t know, NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month. Usually, writers and novelists all over the world…

The Journey and The Journal Become One.

By Nirmala Pillai

Nirmala Pillai Guest blogger Life is short, sweet, and eternal, to say and to believe, to fool us. The person living it only knows; others who are part of it, however intimate, cannot experience it as that individual. The second option for that person is to live it. Write it down as a narrative, so…