Meet: Elora Rath: Contributing Poet for Rhymes and Rhythm

Apart from being a writer and poet at heart, Elora Rath juggles her life between preparation for PhD and job search simultaneously. Hailing from the small township of Dhenkanal, she finds herself in the temple city Bhubaneswar for the heck of a successful career with her family by her side. She comprehends her innate urge and creative passion towards writing is solely inherited from her mother who rejoiced liberal arts as a medium of expression of her soul. Apart from writing prose and poetry in English, Hindi and Oriya to pen down her bleak emotions on a blank sheet, she also has a keen interest of indulging herself in dancing, singing, photography, travelling, internet surfing and cooking in her free time. She believes life taught her more than what she could have ever learnt from a very tender age and the reflections of which can be traced in her writing which picks up delicate issues and small charms of human relationships as a core concern. A real life modern relationship article of hers has been featured in the book called “21 Things about Romance” by Grapevine India Publisher. A fictional story from her pen is featured in the book named “Fusion: A mingled flavour mocktail” by Dream House Publication. She has contributed and got selected to be part of 17 other anthologies by now. Being an avid reader and an ardent fan of Cricket, WWE, Romantic Comedies and bollywood masala movies, she finds herself incriminated in any of the above mentioned guilty pleasures when she gets a break from her favourite activities besides work.

Meet: Arish Dhawan: Contributing Poet for Rhymes and Rhythm

Arish Dhawan is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering and originally hails from Bathinda. A poet by birth and blogger by chance who meant to stumble upon a website named Blogger.com and that changed the way of his life forever. Arish has been a part of 4 anthologies (both national and international) so far. An ardent blogger at www.preciousglories.blogspot.com
He could also be reached at arish.dhawan92@yahoo.com

Meet: Ravouf Jan: Contributing Poet for Rhymes and Rhythm

Ravouf is a teacher by profession and a writer by heart. She writes in English as well as in Urdu, scribbles whatever comes to her mind and whenever her hearts tells her to do so. She loves to play with the words and sometimes they say a poem or sometimes run random to tell a short story
She believes writing is the best form of self expression and by doing so a writer elates manifold.

Meet: Jonali Karmakar: Contributing Poet for Rhymes and Rhythm

Jonali Karmakar is a post graduate in English Literature from Indira Gandhi National Open University. She developed a penchant for writing early in her student life. She is a multilingual poet, writer and editor. She loves to escape into the worlds she creates. Everything that she writes becomes a part of her and she wants her readers to know the woman behind those words. Her work has been published in international anthologies and e-zines.
She can be reached at:  karmakarjonali@gmail.com
 

Meet: Manaswita Ghosh Contributing Poet for Rhymes and Rhythm

Manaswita Ghosh is a journalist and works with The Telegraph Calcutta. She is a writer, poet and an editor. Penguin Books India, British Council and Talent Flush Creations have published her in the past. Her interests include reading books and travelling.

Meet: Mandeep Kaur Heer:Contributing Poet for Rhymes and Rhythm

'Mandeep Kaur Heer' is a postgraduate in Commerce and Human Resource Management. She lives in Delhi and teaches underprivileged children. Her interest areas are Interior Decoration, Creative Economy, Guidance and Counselling, Innovation in teaching strategies, Appliqué to Spirituality and Mindfulness. She is keen to develop curriculum modules infusing art, theatre, music and poetry in Education and done such experiments too. She writes in Hindi, English and Punjabi.

The subject areas of her writing are : life, relationships, love, romance, pedagogy, spirituality and mindfulness to humour.

She is an admirer of art and keen observer of life who finds herself penning down her thoughts. She enjoys good music, learning new things and real conversations. Nature and life inspire her. She loves rain and she loves autumn. Infact she loves every season of life.

She says "Writing to me is like rain showers on a sultry summer and sunshine in a chilly winter. It gives me a sense of free bird flying in the sky or a butterfly enjoying the beauty of a garden. Writing is my liberation, salvation and celebration."

Meet: Jitendra Pathak: Contributing Poet for Rhymes and Rhythm

 Jitendra Pathak, born on 20 August. He has been pursuing B.E. in ECE stream from Dr. B.R. Ambedker University, Agra. He basically like to do poetry in both languages; Hindi and English. His genre of writing poetry are: social, romantic, religious, philosophical and sometimes it involve these all together. His view of writing says that 'writing is a part of life comes in words which has lots of experiences and more than just a thought. So, selling of these things sometimes hurts me a lot because these are not for sell, rather share them and enjoy the sheer joy of happiness. Writer don't create a story, rather, story create a writer.' He says himself a cocktail of philosophy and literature, and when you mix them together then he prepares; a poet.