My inspiration to write
It was during my 8th grade when my brother handed me a book of Nancy Drew! I so loved that book . Now, don’t ask me what thuh !! 8th grade and Nancy The Drew eh??! Nooo.. blame it on the ignorance may be ! :-P..
But yeah, to continue about how my love for books began , it was more for the love in my brother’s gesture of getting me a book from our colony’s library just for me to read!! We used to fight like all siblings. That was the first time I got my period and being from a Tam Bram family.. I was outcast for 4 days. Now my brother who was used to us being normal human beings. Our first floor stairway ended in a small room, where I was to sleep alone :-p and no one was to touch me! Love my dad for many reasons and now if I think of those things that he stood guard about, I can only ‘nazar andaaz’ this bit actually. He’s been an amazing source of inspiration for my life! That apart. Talking about my brother, he could not take this different treatment all of a sudden towards me! I remember , each time this had to happen there used to be hulla bulla.
I was not to go to the kitchen.. Mind u not a step inside! When dad vanished into his room. Arvind , my bro..thats what we used to call him at home. Now he’s subbu to the world slowly to us too , so anna used to sneak in pull my hair and run off to his room. Now what can your appa do :-P he did not see, but I touched you , what happened? Mom used to laugh at us saying u both are mad! Few months later, one such time, in front of dad, he touched my hand and said , now what appah? LOL.. Dad was upset and did not know how to react! We sure gave dad a tough time together. Finally the outcastism stopped once anna got married and my life’s God mother came into our family , my Sister in law Priya! Bro stood strong and said this is not going to be continued and we all lived peacefully ever after. My respect for my dad grew double fold after he adapted to the change smoothly! Thank you appa!
That day the 2nd day of the outcastism in my 8th grade was when I actually began reading books after books. Anna, inculcated the reading habit in some way! (not that am a voracious reader now) with 2 kids, cooking and a hobby turned passion turned small biz. The Hotel by Arthur Hayley is on my table for the last one year! That’s a different league but!
My college library was a great source of reading material. I remember every weekend my friend Vinitha and me used to spend long hours choosing books and loved every bit of it!
For a beginner , I should say anna was my inspiration. But creative writing to me hit the chord with Sadiqa Peerboy! Ah! The name itself brings a smile to me. She’s just amazing.. Imagine , she would be given just a quarter or less of a page ka space in Deccan Herald. And she was so current ! She would not leave any social happening, political happening and occurances then and there. So when Janata Dal and the drama went on for months. I feasted on her articles big time! She’s been another major inspiration to me
Hope to entertain you all the same way!
It was during my 8th grade when my brother handed me a book of Nancy Drew! I so loved that book . Now, don’t ask me what thuh !! 8th grade and Nancy The Drew eh??! Nooo.. blame it on the ignorance may be ! :-P..
But yeah, to continue about how my love for books began , it was more for the love in my brother’s gesture of getting me a book from our colony’s library just for me to read!! We used to fight like all siblings. That was the first time I got my period and being from a Tam Bram family.. I was outcast for 4 days. Now my brother who was used to us being normal human beings. Our first floor stairway ended in a small room, where I was to sleep alone :-p and no one was to touch me! Love my dad for many reasons and now if I think of those things that he stood guard about, I can only ‘nazar andaaz’ this bit actually. He’s been an amazing source of inspiration for my life! That apart. Talking about my brother, he could not take this different treatment all of a sudden towards me! I remember , each time this had to happen there used to be hulla bulla.
I was not to go to the kitchen.. Mind u not a step inside! When dad vanished into his room. Arvind , my bro..thats what we used to call him at home. Now he’s subbu to the world slowly to us too , so anna used to sneak in pull my hair and run off to his room. Now what can your appa do :-P he did not see, but I touched you , what happened? Mom used to laugh at us saying u both are mad! Few months later, one such time, in front of dad, he touched my hand and said , now what appah? LOL.. Dad was upset and did not know how to react! We sure gave dad a tough time together. Finally the outcastism stopped once anna got married and my life’s God mother came into our family , my Sister in law Priya! Bro stood strong and said this is not going to be continued and we all lived peacefully ever after. My respect for my dad grew double fold after he adapted to the change smoothly! Thank you appa!
That day the 2nd day of the outcastism in my 8th grade was when I actually began reading books after books. Anna, inculcated the reading habit in some way! (not that am a voracious reader now) with 2 kids, cooking and a hobby turned passion turned small biz. The Hotel by Arthur Hayley is on my table for the last one year! That’s a different league but!
My college library was a great source of reading material. I remember every weekend my friend Vinitha and me used to spend long hours choosing books and loved every bit of it!
For a beginner , I should say anna was my inspiration. But creative writing to me hit the chord with Sadiqa Peerboy! Ah! The name itself brings a smile to me. She’s just amazing.. Imagine , she would be given just a quarter or less of a page ka space in Deccan Herald. And she was so current ! She would not leave any social happening, political happening and occurances then and there. So when Janata Dal and the drama went on for months. I feasted on her articles big time! She’s been another major inspiration to me
Hope to entertain you all the same way!
Hey Vidya,
ReplyDeleteI love reading all your posts, this one in particular took me back to the good old AECS layout days...the library there in Kiran's house was so special, its where I made friends with so many wonderful people. Arvind is one of the nicest persons I have come across...he might be Subbu to the world, but is always Arvind to the AECS layout folks. And Priya and I have known each other since we said 'Hello World' :)
Keep writing Vidya!!!
Thank you Swapna! this feels so nice ! truly our layout days were one of the best times ever! the culturals , the group song you remember.. meera and all of us! getting nostalgic!! :-) sure want to go on! :-)
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