This is my first post here in this blog where I hope to share with you my journey as a writer, author and poet. This journey began a long time ago when I was in school. I was a voracious reader and I loved to write. My teacher asked me to rewrite the stories that I had read, in simpler language and to share those stories with those of my classmates whose proficiency in the English language was less competent. I not only rewrote the stories, but also got my classmates to enact them during our break time. Those were the days!! As I grew older, I found myself enjoying poetry more and more. I began writing short poems which I did not share then. It was only when I was attending teacher training college that I shared a poem about a rose. This attracted the attention of my English lecturer and his comments encouraged me to continue writing more poems, many of which are based on my personal experiences. I then tried my hand at writing short stories, the first of which was loosely based on the life of my second cousin. It was gratifying to see the stories […]