Arunima G

I belong to a very down to earth family, brought up by Bengali parents and nurtured in all possible senses by my elder sister. Born in the 80's and educated in an all girls' school, I find myself indebted to my excellent teachers who somehow, saw in me an ardent observer and someone who wanted to put words to each and every thought that passed through my mind. Words soon became the representatives of all my emotions and my father helped to me make them my friends for life, until the day came, when the same words started expressing my silence. I am a trained physician and now, almost 15 years down the life, treating life and accepting death every day, I am finally at peace with myself. The mere revelation that me, like any other born on this planet, has a limited time on this spinning blob of green and blue, helped me shed both my sense of 'Martyrdom' and also the innate desire to be 'GOOD'. I find immense satisfaction in being the beautiful weird woman that I am, just as the love of my love, my 'MONKEY' says. After two failed marriages, life had made me a bitter person, full of anger and hopelessness. Then my father's advise came back to me and I started writing my short stories. When I had finished almost forty odd ones, my friend and extremely talented editor Phillips Windapo, a pastor by profession, a man of God and yet, world-wise enough to know the depth and the twist in my stories, pointed out the potential of each one of them to flourish and grow into something more.....I heeded his advise and my modest 3000-5000 worded endeavors metamorphosed into my books. With my two books published and several others in line, I intend to bring forth the colors of the human mind for my readers. Each book is a humble attempt to look beyond the obvious....an effort to make a reader ask himself or herself, well, am I one of them? Well, you are.....yes YOU, YOU are there in my books....YOU make my books and they revolve around you....Arunima is the first light of dawn and represents the things pure and simple in life. But it is a statuary warning, don't take my name on it's face value. My stories have neither the simple nor the docile. They are made up of sweat tears and blood....actually a lot of blood. Perhaps because 'YOU' are my protagonist.....

Love,

Arunima.