Ananya Nandi! A wordsmith! An Author! A humorist!
Everything began with Ananya’s mother getting regular PTM feedback about Ananya being a very shy and introverted child, after which Ms Nandi felt strongly that she lacked social skills. Ananya talks of how her mother initially pressured her into participating in competitions at school, such as spell bee, debate, declamation, speech et cetera. For her mother, it was not about her child winning but about Ananya going out there in participating itself, in order to teach Ananya how to face an audience, how to talk confidently and to overcome her stage fear.
It was during one such creative writing competition in which Ananya took part and received a note of appreciation from her teacher that her mother figured out that Ananya had a knack and talent for writing.
Ananya has, since a young age, always been interested in books, and has always been a creative person who used to scribble or draw cartoons and write something about those cartoons in matchboxes and so on. As an introvert who is not very good at interacting with others, Ananya would express her thoughts and emotions in the form of cartoon drawings and comics from the age of eight, as her vocabulary was not good enough to articulate her emotions just by writing. After putting in a lot of effort in such small creative expressions, Ananya finally was interested in getting her work published when she was in 7th grade. It was then that she wrote seriously, with the end goal of getting published.
Today, Ananya has multiple published works to call her own. Her first story is “An Encounter With A Tiger” which was published in the book ‘Reverie’ in 2019 comprising short stories by multiple authors. It is a humorous story about a school trip. Her second story to be published is “An Eclipse” in the book ‘What Tomorrow Brings’ which is inspired by a real-life incident and talks about hope.
We are talking about her book, “Everyday musings of a clodhopper” which is about a 14-year-old girl and the struggles all adolescents go through, and the title literally means The Everyday Thoughts of a Socially Awkward Person. The book is a collection of eight short stories, which are hilarious, and I found myself laughing all the way through it. It was a very enjoyable read indeed!
From a shy girl who was not confident even to speak to others, and convey what you wanted, to a published author who is selling copies of her book on Amazon, we see that you have come a long way Ananya, and we could not be more proud!
