Monthly Archives: December 2016

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built”. If I had not mustered the courage to step out of the safe haven of my parents’ home, my support system and the comforts of a known territory to venture into the unknown 620 kilometers away, different languageContinue reading “The Making of a Brand”

I came home from school to my Ammammma’s (grandmother) wails. She was 78 years old and trying to comb my 53 year old Pedamma’s (Amma’s older and only sister) hair. The comb was covered in dark soot. At first I thought that my Pedamma’s hair was on fire. But they were lice. Her scalp wasContinue reading “The Lotus (Kamala)”

We all have our struggles, some dark, some hidden but each more tumultuous than other. It is not easy coping with such challenges. Poetry for me is a channel to release those complicated emotions. Words I could never verbalize have always come to my rescue in the form of poetry. Whether be loss of aContinue reading “Why I write POETRY?”