Jai Shri Ganesh...

I am guessing I am about 3 years late... thats at least how old the few blogs I read are.

Why now?

It is my resolve to keep things honest on this blog, so here is the truth. I have harboured ambitions to write and be published since I was 16 - not unlike every other person around me with even the smallest of literary bugs in their bonnet. I finally got down to penning some stuff last year during my exotic travels through my 4 month break from work. (Beware - I just said Iam not going to lie, boast, I will for sure!!) My office was nice enough to get one of these writings published in the Mint sometime in March. Here is that one masterpiece: http://www.livemint.com/articles/2008/03/10003309/The-road-less-travelled.html

I am guessing you are beginning to recognise the boasts easily by now.

I am still waiting for them to publish the other. Since then the writing has been, ummmm lets say, infrequent. Now my real writing, unlike this post and like the article, I would say tends to be a little bit on the serious side. I realise now that with serious sounding stuff, it is not easy to get published in the daily print media as a 32 year old mid-management person, even if in a top end international consulting firm(are you tracking? that was boast #3). It is even harder to have enough serious and coherent things to say to write a whole book. And I am only guessing it is very very hard to get people to buy such a book given it is not entertaining reading with a glossy cover and a catchy title! (i wouldnt blame anyone. I would not buy such a book. I am big fan of chick-lit, btw, and buy and read/skim through any such thing written by a 20-something Indian woman/man or a fellow engineer/IIM-ite!!)

But i do continue to have an urge to write; to share and discuss my reflections with others around me. And hence this blog! Hoping this finds more success than the articles and the books. Those can wait another day.