From Asha's Desk 
October 2020

Dear Glow-worms,

As I prepare to post the next issue of our blog today, I am looking back on my early writing days. Back then, there was little opportunity for us to showcase our talents. The best that I could aspire, initially, was to have my article or poem featured in the school or college magazine. Later, when I felt more confident to write on weightier issues, I wrote ‘letters to the editor.’ As one would very well guess, most of the letters came back with a regret letter. Getting a letter published felt like winning a lottery to me.

We have come a long way from those days. New avenues have opened up for us to give expression to our creative skills in more ways than one. Yet, we don’t actively participate. Is it a problem of plenty now, I wonder.

After a brisk start in August, and an even more robust September, submissions for October fell considerably. Much as I would like to believe that children were preoccupied with academic activities (exams and such), I am also feebly worried that the fire hasn’t caught fully. The interest to write needs to be fueled further. 

Agreed, writing is not as thrilling as Fortnite Battle Royal or as amusing as K-pop, but it is not meant to be thrilling or plainly amusing. It is meant to be comforting and inspiring. 

I would like to know what would motivate you all to grab your pen and express that thought, opinion, emotion rising from your soul, or what makes you run miles away from it. 

Let this be the ‘topic of the month’ for November.

‘What makes you want to write or not to write?’

Looking forward to receiving your works. There is nothing that excites me as reading a beautiful piece of writing coming off a young mind.

Till next month,

Keep Glowing. Keep Growing.