Hello to all the members of trust7. I'm glad to have discovered what seems to be a good and solid forum where I, as a writer can share with you all, some interesting news and views about Germany. To inform, inspire and empower my readers is my mission. I hope to convey my thoughts and ideas to the larger audience with relative ease and spark up an instant rapport with you all. Just a brief introduction about who I am.

A poet, a dreamer, a thinker, a wannabe writer, mildly philosophical and deeply emotional, is that all? No! What I really feel about myself, goes this way-

I am a sinner; a saint

a charmer; a deceiver

a mirth; a pain

a pretence; a truth

a smile; a tear.

I am a human, I am ephemeral!

Writing about oneself is the most daunting task, each morning when I wake up, I see a new me in myself and throw away the previous day's mask. I am a woman with million dreams in my eyes, fond of exploring new lands, diverse cultures and interacting with people, guess!! this is what becomes of you when you have a mass communication background, you just can't SHUT UP. I take each day as a challenge and life has brought it's own set of shocks and surprises for me. I grew up dreaming of becoming a doctor only to become a journalist today....wow!! Surely, we make plans and God laughs at them. It won't be wrong if I say, 'What I expected, I never got and what I got, was never expected.' But whatever, I got in the end was worth.

During my Post Graduation days, I worked for an NGO (Non Govt. Organisation) dedicated to the cause of women, their rights, uplift and emancipation in India which still happens to be a fairly male dominated society. Though I strongly advocate gender equality however I still expect men to hold doors for us, pull out chairs for us when dinning out, and before we touch our purses, they open their wallets to pay for us like true gentlemen and we be treated as queens...well! that's some confused feminism.

Writing, for me is more than just a hobby. It is said pen is mightier than sword, through my writings I wish to avenge the wrong done to the innocent people and countries around the world by letting truth find its way. To be a prolific writer is my ultimate aim, so that my work lives and is remembered long after I have gone. I hold a Bachelors degree in History with specialisation in Medieval European History and French Revolution. I have a special interest in Classics like 'Gone with the wind' etc , besides, Romantic and Victorian era poetry. I hope to read Plato's (the great philosopher) 'The Republic' some day.

I come from a small University town named Aligarh in North India. After completing my Masters in Mass Communication I went for my training in a News Channel in Delhi. I have also worked in an Indian magazine as an associate copy editor and reporter. Since then life has been a constant journey for me with no looking back. Further, I did my advanced Diploma in Political Journalism from Independent Colleges in Ireland, where I took up volunteer work in Public Relations in a Govt. run organisation for retired and underprivileged citizens. Presently, I am living in Aachen, Germany. That's all about me and my world.

Lastly, I could briefly sum up myself by these self composed lines-

If only I had wings,
I could give my dreams a swing.
I could then free myself from this worldly and selfish clinch.
To fly off, far away into the land of my dreams,
where everything is pure, sacred and clean.
But,wait! I'm no bird and I have no wings,

Isn't it true, from the commoner rises the king.
So what, if I have no wings.
I'm my today and tomorrow.

There are two paths ahead of me,
and I've chosen the less travelled by thee.
Though, it seems thorny and coarse,
But, challenges have to be taken and I have no remorse.