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Neelam Saxena Chandra is an Engineering graduate from VNIT and has done her Post Graduation Diploma in IM&HRD and also in Finance. She has completed a summer course in Finance from London School of Economics. She has authored 7 novels, 9 short story collections, 40 poetry collections and 15 children’s books to her credit. More than 2000 of her stories/poems/articles have been published in various international/national journals/magazines etc. She is a bilingual writer; writing in English and Hindi. She holds a record with the Limca Book of Records -2015 for being the Author having the highest number of publications in a year in English and Hindi. She has won a prize in a poetry contest organized by American Embassy & Arushi (awarded by Gulzar sahib), award by Women’s Web for fiction writing, award in a National poetry contest organized by Poetry Council of India, 2016, award for writing for children by Children’s Book Trust, awarded a prize for her fiction by Women’s Web, etc. She has received, Sohanlal Dwivedi Puraskar for children’s literature by Maharashtra state Hindi Sahitya Akademi for the year 2018, Humanity International Women Achiever Awards 2018, Bharat Nirman Literary award in 2017, Premchand award (Twice) by Ministry of Railways, Rabindranath Tagore International Poetry award, Soninder Samman, Shabdshree Samman, Freedom award by Radio city for Lyrics along with other awards and honors. She was listed in Forbes as one among 78 most popular authors in the country in 2014. Her poem was also placed at no 7 in a contest organized by NAMI (NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness, USA) in 2021.
Niharika watched with a glow on her face as she saw her daughter, Mihika, being awarded the Gold Medal for her performance in her academics. While she was hugging her tight, she suddenly remembered the time when she was condemned and ridiculed at, not only by her extended family, but her neighbors. The reason – […]
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. -Denis Waitley I strongly believe that what a person becomes as an adult is a result of how he is brought up as a kid. The four most important things include: Upbringing: Children are very […]
MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL! “Girl, girl, girl…” The voices echo! Her lips are dry, Her heart aches once again, And the traumas of life resurface! So what, if she gave her Every drop of sweat, Every pound of flesh, Every unannounced tear To those whom she called her own, The words still […]
The simple, beautiful and talented Anupama, who is also the heroine of the novel ‘MAHASHWETA’ by Sudha Murty, is my favorite female. While reading the novel, the character of Anupama made me go through her happiness, romance, pain, anguish and then triumph. In the beginning, the character of Anupama is portrayed in an extremely simple […]
The women folk in her firm only wore salwar-kameez or saris. She had already been mocked at several times for being a bit rebellious. She didn’t wish to stand out for her dress.
A girl may not like cooking, and we need to accept it. After all, the X chromosome does not have a cooking gene!
For six months my sister, brother and I along with our families had been taking care of our mother. Then how did others have a say in things?
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What parents do have an ever-lasting impressions on a child. He may either have the same traits or exactly opposite ones. To take care of the undisciplined behavior of son, it’s fine to send him to some other country (USA). Women have no “say” – be it (Vijay) Ranvir’s mom, his sister or his wife. […]
As a child, I wondered why my mother's friend, with a Bachelor's in Education and at the age of 55, had so much enthusiasm for teaching while many others had given up.
If her MIL had accepted her with some affection, wouldn't they have built a mutually happier relationship by now?
She was sure she was dying of cancer the first time her periods came. Why did her mother not explain anything? Why did no one say anything?
Shreya smiled and posed sexily. The paparazzi wanted her snaps. Just as she hurried up, she was surrounded by fans for an autograph. After all, her first “just released” movie was a super hit. All she yearned to do was to hurry home. However, her publicity agent gave her a stern glance. Putting on the […]
During our Engineering college days, we had joined a technical organisation that spanned across years. Just a month later, we were informed that we were being taken out for a technical visit, and we were pretty excited. This was during second year of Engineering, when we were hardly eighteen or nineteen year young 😉 Well, […]
After a long time, I decided to watch a movie, which happened to be “Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani”. I hadn’t expected the movie to so badly directed, and beyond an hour, I couldn’t watch it. But anyway, the topic of interest was the story of Jamini and Kanwal, who had a brief extra-marital […]
My mother saw me with damp eyes and asked, “What happened?” I started weeping said, “Mummy, why didn’t you teach me to cook? All girls of my age know?”
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Trisha had just been diagnosed with Breast Cancer. She should have been traumatised. She wanted a shoulder to cry upon. But there was none. Caught in a wrong marriage, which she hadn’t realised, she had severed ties with all her relatives and friends, because that was what Parag and his extended family demanded. She realised […]
It was our first job, and we were absolutely clueless. Soon, we were seated in front of him. He asked us, “Have you seen what you are wearing?”
When I entered the Engineering College, there were very few girls, and we were told: “You’d better prove that you’re good at it, otherwise, you’ll never receive offers for good jobs.”
While we hear about so much of hue and cry about live-in relationships in our country, while traveling, I came across an article wherein Twinkle Khanna mentioned that her mother advised her to live-in at least for 2 years before marrying Akshay Kumar! I felt like saying “Same-pinch” to her, though of course, I can’t […]
THE DEMONS “Please, please save me from the clutches of the demons…” she implored. But, no one paid any heed to her appeal. No one seemed to have even heard her. Saina was in a market with people swarming all around her. How come no one is able to listen to her, she wondered. She […]
I wondered why this notion is so rampant that it is difficult for women to work together. Work is work, and does someone's sex or gender matter?
When you try to kiss me, my eyes shall be wet with tears. When you come near me, my whole body shall be shivering. But I shall carefully hide all my emotions.
Her mother-in-law looked at her with a crooked smile and asked not her, but her three-day-old husband, “When’s she changing her surname?”
Poem: That I had indeed let myself become a Barbie girl. With a plastic life. Letting others do what they wished with me as if I had no choice!
Before my marriage, my views were known to my partner and he appreciated it. However, when I wished to voice my opinions in front of his parents, he used to become completely silent.
When I reached my in-laws place, my mother-in-law quickly made me wear a ‘ghunghat’ up to my nose... I headed an organisation with 500 men and here...!
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