I lay you softly, looking at all the contours where my lips want to slide. The heart is beating faster for, not what it sees, but from the knowing that there is so much more I will discover, as together we tread areas we have never visited. Like a mystery, you will unravel as I […]

When I was a little girl my grandfather played a game with my brothers and me. He would ask us to tell him an original story and would keep throwing random words/ themes/situations at us as we spoke. The challenge was to switch to the new theme of the story without missing a single beat.  […]

I attended my first writing workshop five years ago. As we started talking about the finer points of writing fiction, I remember how I felt the quick resistance of anxiety. I bluntly blurted “Fiction? I have never written a story in my life!” I was there, in my mind, just to foster a hobby, a […]

The act of putting the pen to paper has always been my saviour. It is the reason why I am on good terms with friends and family. Conditioned by surroundings and circumstances to always toe the lakshman rekha, the Shoorpannaka in me could only find expression in the written word. I wrote on whatever was […]

The greatest power a human has is that of self-expression and to me as a woman writing is the most potent means to own that power. Say I am happy, I get a huge kick out of being able to clearly define whether it’s just cheerful or absolutely rapturous; if I am sad – is […]

My earliest of memories, is an image in which bent over a sunmica dining table I can be seen scribbling on a single-line notebook opened at the last page. I am writing away on that inviting spread of lines. Apparently, my masterpiece. It’s a Saturday morning. I know this because the stale breath of sleep […]

There are certain passions in your life which stay dormant inside, sleeping somewhere, waiting to be unearthed. Writing was exactly like that for me. The year was 2016. I had been working and travelled extensively across geographies, supporting various telco assignments. Thanks to the challenges of motherhood and a spouse extremely busy on an entrepreneurial […]

I wonder if the answer to Why I Write is as simple as it seems. I wonder if I follow this question sincerely will it lead me straight to a place where the answer lies smugly in its truthfulness with an air of finality. In that case, will I be stuck in a complacency hindering […]

To be honest, I haven’t really thought about it before. All I know is that a daily juggling with words has become so intrinsic to who I am, that it is now almost like any other bodily function. One that I know would kill me to stop. As far back as I can remember, I […]

I’ve been asked this question many times, even by my own self, probably because I am a software professional by qualification and experience. I started writing the moment I learnt to write. There were diaries, I remember, in my childhood where I poured all of my little heart. There were questions. There were wonderings. There […]