"It was a wonderful experience interacting with you and appreciate the way you have planned and executed the whole publication process within the agreed timelines.”
Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
Do you remember the surreal experience of ‘Lockdown’? Every day felt like a gift from God. We could not watch the news channels beyond a few minutes because there was hardly anything positive to watch. Many of us got hooked on to spiritual lectures, religious discourses or music concerts that could soothe our minds which were always laden with worries about our kith and kin, whom we could only see on video calls.
Many of us got into a disciplined lifestyle of exercises, yoga, walks in our gardens, cleaning up, gargling, inhaling, washing, watching some positive program, reading, talking to our friends and relatives and going to bed at a regular time. I thought of including one more activity to this list and decided to write one piece a day, digging into my memories (most of them happy, ofcourse) and trying to pep up myself and my friends. It became an exciting experience for me, as my friends loved my articles, started reading regularly and waited eagerly for my piece every night. As I wrote about my childhood, my youth, my experiences, the people whom I adored, loved and respected, I realised I was touching the hearts of many of my friends, who could relate to many of the things I described. Many of them shared their experiences with me after reading my pieces.
If you want to trigger your thoughts from your sweet past, go on and start reading. I assure you will get absorbed into those beautiful eras when things were so different. Just a chance to relive your past!
Sudha Narasimhachar
Sudha Narasimhachar is a retired banker, social activist, writer, journalist and author. She has published two collections of short stories for children, ‘The Red Monster and other evocative tales’ and ‘Churmuri Potpourri’, translated two books of short stories of Munshi Premchand from Hindi to English and has her short stories and poems published in many anthologies, such as ‘Many Rooms, Many Voices’, ‘The Tapestry’, etc. She has published a collection of her poems online, ‘Odes From My Heart’ and written many middles, features, profiles, interviews, travelogues, short stories and poems, for leading newspapers The Deccan Herald, The New Indian Express, The Hindu and journals, besides a few online magazines. She writes mostly on development issues and about people serving the society in various manners. She is one of the founders of SAHYOG, an NGO making a small difference in the society. She lives with her husband, a retired Engineer and her main support, in Bangalore.
