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Abhishek Ghosh (1 Post )

Abhishek Ghosh is a teacher, writer and scientist. He is a resident of Montreal in Canada. He earned his PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Calgary, Canada followed by a postdoc from McGill University in Oncology. Abhishek is an experienced writer with over a decade of training in scientific writing leading to many scientific publications/reviews in peer-reviewed journals. Despite challenges and hopelessness from renowned Doctors, Abhishek survived a rare immunosuppressive disease through yoga practices and hypnotherapy. Abhishek was greatly surprised to rediscover himself through his indomitable willpower. This turned him into the Vedanta philosophy and other Indian scriptures in order to find some answers to his burning questions. He started writing blogs about his experiences, using his pen name “The Blue Monk.” His writings often reflect the nuances of his homeland Kolkata and his travel experiences. Abhishek is a polyglot who can speak English, French, Hindi, and Bengali. He hosted breakfast shows in a South Asian Radio Station (CHRN 1610AM). He is also a Founder/Creative head of a Montreal-based YouTube channel called “Ghosh Company” which focusses on multidisciplinary art, informed discussions with guests across diverse fields, and social awareness. He currently assists a financial portfolio under the Canadian banking industry and volunteers as a Guest Teacher at The Future Foundation School, Kolkata.

Dr Ampat Varghese Koshy (27 Posts )

Dr. Koshy A.V. is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the English Department of Jazan University, Saudi Arabia. He has many books, degrees, diplomas, certificates, prizes, and awards to his credit and also, besides teaching, is an editor, anthology maker, poet, critic and writer of fiction. He runs an autism NPO with his wife, Anna Gabriel.

Niilesh A Raje (3 Posts )

Niilesh A Raje views writing as meditation. He is a "Business Analyst" by profession and a "Writer" by passion. In 2007, he was selected as "The Youth of the Nation" to represent India at the first CCS World Youth Forum held in the European Parliament, Brussels on the theme of Leadership and Motivation. As a thought leader he also received the invitation as India delegate to The Climate Project's Asia-Pacific Summit held in Melbourne, Australia in July 2009 to undergo personal training from Al Gore (Ex-Vice President of America and Nobel Peace Prize laureate). With a strong publication background his articles have been published by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA), a leading association in the profession of Business Analysis in USA, in ProjectTimes.com, Business Analyst Times and In Flight Magazines to name a few. His magazine "Nosstalgiaaa", a free online bi-monthly magazine pays homage to the masters of Hindi cinema and enlightens the readers on all facets of film making through articles, interviews, trivia, anecdotes and book reviews. Nosstalgiaaa, is the first of its kind and is solely dedicated to the golden era of Indian Cinema.

Surajit Roy (1 Post )

Surajit Roy is an alumni of Welham School Dehra Dun & Mayo College Ajmer and did his Postgraduation from St Stephens College, Delhi. Having a work experience of nearly 40 years, he has served both in the govt as part of the civil services and the private sector. After finishing his innings of full-time employment last year, Surajit at present mentors young professionals on how to connect with their work-life. Recently he also published his first book on the subject titled Say Goodbye to Monday Blues. Surajit is equally passionate about travel, Hindi films and music and performs on stage at regular intervals as a founding member of the Pancham Fan Club, Delhi.

Tamchi Mingka (1 Post )

Tamchi Mingka is a student of Ane Moriam School, Sangram, Arunachal Pradesh, India. He likes to play football and read story books in his leisure time. His aim is to become a Civil Engineer.

Tanusri Gururaj (2 Posts )

Tanusri is a class VII student of DPS Noida. She has won prizes in painting competitions, Sloka recitation and music competitions and has represented her school on Sahara TV. In sports, she loves to play badminton and basketball.

Tanvi Nigam (1 Post )

Tanvi is an 11-yr-old student of Std. VII, Amity International School, Mayur Vihar - I, extn. She loves to draw and paint.

Tapan Dasgupta (10 Posts )

Tapan Dasgupta, a business associate caters to corporate brand promotion and scribbles at pastime to shape out literary forms.

Tapati Dutta (2 Posts )

Tapati Dutta is the niece of legendary singer Geeta Dutt. She retired as deputy education officer at Kolkata Municipal Corporation and spends her time listening to music, reading and travelling. She lives in Kolkata and visits her daughter in Houston often.

Tapeswar Prasad Yadav (1 Post )

Tapeshwar Prasad Yadav is a Graphic Designer currently working as an Asst. Librarian at St. Xavier’s College, Digha (Patna). Married to a beautiful woman with two loving daughters and a son, presently based at Patna. His schooling was from K.V.S. Jorhat (Assam), Sarsawa (U.P), Halwara (Punjab) respectively and graduation from Punjab University (Chandigarh). Painting, sketching, reading and music are some of his part time hobbies. Awarded Bihar Wibhuti Samman for his social work. He is the author of three books, Ansul Amef  [Meaning: Atma Prakash in hindi], released in the year 2002, Soul, released in 2013 by the Poetry Society of India, Gurgaon and Divine Trumpet released in 2014 by Shambhawi, Kolkata. Besides, his poetry has been featured in numerous international anthologies, journals and e-zines including Camel Saloon, Scaling Heights (an Anthology on Contemporary Indian English Poetry), inklinks, The Aquillrelle Wall of Poetry, Anthesis and Episteme: an online interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and multi-cultural journal. He has been included twice as ICOP: Roll of Honour as Faith centered poet of the year 2013 and 2014 as Highly Commended by Sir Louis Kasatkin, U.K.

Tapti Pal (1 Post )

Tapti Pal has been born a Bengali, brought up in Odisha and Kerala and settled in Jharkhand, which helped her broaden her horizons as a person and also as a writer. A University topper, she is a postgraduate , and M. Phil in bioscience. After a decade long stint as a school teacher, she quit in order to live a life of her choice. Teaching, music and reading continues to be her passion, Having a grown up son who is away from home to pursue academics, she has devoted her time to writing poems and prose pieces.

Tejasri Gururaj (2 Posts )

Tejasri Gururaj enjoys music, science and nature. She likes to read books and draw.

The Significant League (17 Posts )

The Significant League is a Facebook literary group which was started by a person who has a child with autism and hence has a special interest in it which explains why every April Autism Awareness month the group tries to do something connected with autism. This time, as for last year, it has been to trying to get its members to write poems on autism. Some very fine poems have come up as result.

Tikuli (3 Posts )

Brought up in Delhi in a family of liberal educationists Tikuli is a mother of two sons. She is also a blogger and author. Some of her short stories and poems have appeared in print and in online journals and literary magazines including Le Zaparougue, MiCROW 8, Troubadour21, The Smoking Book (Poets Wear Prada Press, US), The Enchanting Verses Literary Review, Mnemosyne Literary Journal, Women's Web. Open Road Review. Some of her print publications include poems in Guntur National Poetry Festival Anthology, Melange - a potpourri of thoughts (Anthology By Poets Corner). and much acclaimed Chicken Soup For The Indian Romantic Soul (Westland). Her work has also been featured on websites related to gender issues and child sexual abuse. She blogs at tikulicious.wordpress.com

TJ Natarajan (1 Post )

TJ Natarajan loves to capture the beautiful moods and moments of Nature with his camera. He is a music enthusiast with vast knowledge in Hindi film music and plays the flute to entertain himself in moments of solitude. TJ lives in Jamshedpur, India.

Tripathga Vatsa (1 Post )

Tripathga Vatsa lives in Jamshedpur and enjoys doing creative artwork, whenever her two energetic sons are not keeping her on her toes.

Today’s Motivation

Restricted patterns of thoughts penetrate our efforts and constrain our existence which stops our development. Phases in our life are like the plateaus (highlands), the steps towards success.  We should not remain on the steps; to progress, we must go beyond them.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt -->
Restricted patterns of thoughts penetrate our efforts and constrain our existence which stops our development. Phases in our life are like the plateaus (highlands), the steps towards success. We should not remain on the steps; to progress, we must go beyond them.