A little about me for whoever found their way here deliberately or stumbled upon this page. It wouldn’t be wrong to call me “The Bored Banker”. With 20 years of banking behind me, it’s safe to say that I was good at what I did. The door to banking was open when I finished university, and I walked straight through it. Banking chose me, and I accepted graciously.

It took me some years, 14 to be precise, to realize that the profession that had consumed a large part of my adult life was simply a job. While I devoted much time and energy to it, I felt something was missing. That’s when it dawned on me that banking was just one aspect of my life; it was not “My Life”!

This realization was the beginning of a new journey and this blog, created in 2012, was the product of that realization. However, with no clue about blogging, I did not write until  2016. In the interim, I dabbled with art and sketching but soon realized that art was hard work (especially when one has never learnt it formally). It’s not like blogging wasn’t.  But, in art, one had to find an appropriate picture, have the material before one could begin and clean-up after every sitting unlike blogging :). Also, being a novice in the field, the result was unpredictable.

This blog is essentially me – it has everything that my life revolves around – family, experiences, poetry, art, book reviews, travelogues and general chit-chat.

Am I Great at Writing? Have I studied Literature in University?

An Emphatic No!

I have never written professionally but my mother like all doting mothers, believed her daughter could write and she made no secret of it much to my chagrin. There was absolutely no point in telling her that I had no idea about grammar or that I really did not have the “stuff” that writers’ were made of.

To all you readers out there, this is both a warning and a sincere request. If you’re looking for a “literature” kind of blog, then you’re in the wrong place. This blog is simply about Life, written in simple layman’s English.

Why a blog? Simply because it allows me to do what I love most -Write!

Like someone rightly said, till 40 you are learning. It’s only after 40 you start living; so here I am, finally doing what I enjoy most. I hope you enjoy reading my posts as much I enjoy writing them, my writing resonates with you, makes you pause and ponder, and I hope it makes you come back for more.

Six years since I began blogging

Having the blog helped me when I left my banking job in 2018 and moved to India with my family. Over the years, I’ve made some good friends whom I have never seen but who’ve been with me on my journey through life.

I co-authored the book, Roads- A Journey with Verses on July 2019, with a fellow blogger. My poem, ‘Omid’ was nominated for ‘Best of the Net’ in 2019 and my poem, ‘Do you have dreams?’ and ‘Forgotten’ were given special mention in NaPoWriMo 2021 and 2022, respectively. My poems have been published by Spillwords Press, Thieving Magpies, Borderless Society, Silverbirch Press, the Rebelle Society to name a few and more recently, Masticadores, USA. I was nominated for, ‘Poet of the month’ by Spillwords in May 2022.

The lockdown on account of Covid led me to try my hand at Art again and since 2020, I have been sharing my art on the blog. In 2022, I participated in the ‘Art for charity’ drive, held by the Rotoract Club of Mumbai and am happy to say, that 9 of my paintings donated for the cause, fetched an amount of Rs 47000. This encouraged me to work more at Art.

What I love more than writing the post:

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Have a great day!

Cheers,

SmithaV

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Eúnoia – We have a new name!

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