

Sympathy means to acknowledge the suffering or predicament of a person and his/her situation. There are two words in English, Sympathy and Empathy. What was the thought behind choosing "Draupadi" as your lead character.? Also, although I had been writing poems since my childhood, I realized through certain social incidents like Nirbhaya, 26/11, The Peshawar Killings, that poem should be used for social awakening! My writing and my poems were a catharsis for me and an eye opener for the society.ģ. However, it was in my late twenty that I started contributing articles to newspapers. Me, my sister and my father always converse in English, read a lot of English books and learn one English word from the dictionary every day! My father’s idea of outing was a trip to the National Library in Kolkata and I loved equally the smell of books as I loved my tryst with them! That somehow helped ignite the spark, or rather a love, for the English language and subsequently writing in it. I wrote my first letter when I was five years old and my first poem at nine! My father insisted that we, i.e. My love affair with the English language started at a very young age. When was the first spark ignited in you and how? I also hold a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism.Ģ. I completed my Graduation in Arts from S.F.S College Nagpur where in I was both the college topper and the University topper in History and won the Hiralal. Joseph’s Convent Nagpur and Bhavans Kolkata.

Hi, it will be a pleasure answering your questions! I was born in Kolkata and finished my schooling from Bishop Westcott Girls High School, Namkum, St. Tell me about yourself and your academics?
