why i created this blog

 It has been a long time since I blogged. So why a new blog? New start requires a new journal I guess. Writing is something that long well off the wagon, and retracing the steps, I have still not found it. So, rather than waste more time trying to reinvent where that meandered away, I needed to find a place that picks up with the now and here, with how I am, with what I hope to achieve. 


With two small 'uns under he roof, my love of reading and stories is finding yet another channel, this time at he level that is engaging to them. If you had told me, 10 years or even 15 years ago, that I will gravitate towards my mother tongue, and crave books for them to learn and love the language easily, I would have dismissed it. Karma is circular, all the more when the cycle of life is repeated.


Anyhow, that is enough preamble, now on to the show. I enjoy reading mythology, mystery and of late, kid lit. I feel the richness of Indian folklore has not found a foothold in the expanding kid lit genre, similar to how authors in english, and chinese are making inroads. 


I would like a story that builds on the mythological themes of Indian based demons, heroes and the super powers that mortals were able to wield. I think my protagonist would be an Indian origin kid, tending towards a girl. Maybe a cowardly girl, who would never be expected to do anything brave or great. I still ponder over how she would have been chosen into this fantastical imaginative world, and what powers or conflicts she will find herself in. Who her allies and rivals will be, and her rising to meet the challenges along the way. 


Along these ideas, that I am trying to let loose, I am getting tangled up in the realism explanations for it. The creative whimsy of my brain has long been suppressed by the pragmatism of adulthood, which question the fantasy much more loudly. I envy how the best story tellers are able to let go of the reins and immerse themselves into the worlds they create. I wonder whether I will even get there, or keep questioning myself constantly.

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