Purple Hues

1- You are a proud contributing Author of Purple Hues-3, India's favorite Anthology. What is your story/ poem about? Is it related to your own life or someone you know? My Story is my personal story. It’s about one year of my life which I spent in the rural corners of Odisha (India), working for the development of a rural school, under SBI Youth for India fellowship.  2- As the theme for the series is Inspiration, tell us who or what inspired you to start writing. I inherited this habit from my father who has been writing since ages and has also been nominated for ‘Sahitya Akadami Award’ for writing novels in the Maithili language.    3- Do you think that Artists have a social responsibility? If you had all the power, what is that one thing you would like to change about our world? Of course, artists have a social responsibility on their shoulders. If I had such power, I would have tried my best to kill the gap people have created based on...

1-       You are a proud contributing Author of Purple Hues-3, India's favorite Anthology. What is your story/ poem about? Is it related to your own life or someone you know? They have an inspirational theme where everyone with their respective struggles is urged to forge ahead by having faith and keeping their heads still. We always have that power within ourselves to seek the Almighty’s directions and this is what has been stressed upon in both of the poems. Now, the constant truth is that none of us can boast of having harvested only happiness. There are scary circumstances and hard times that try to get the better of us throughout life. Thus, I have written something relatable to what all of us have experienced at some point in time or the other. In short, my works are related to the ‘Universe’. 2-       As the theme for the series is Inspiration, tell us who or what inspired you to start writing. To be honest,...

1- You are a proud contributing Author of Purple Hues-3, India's favorite Anthology. What is your story/ poem about? Is it related to your own life or someone you know? First of all, I want to express my gratitude that I got an opportunity to write for this anthology. Well, that was the most valuable e-mail to me from you Nikita! Writing poems is a soul song to me. I do not read many books to write. My writing is all about the people whom I have met and the impacts they left. Literally, there are stories from different people and my observations about them.My musings, quotes, poetry, songs reflect the beauty of raw, void, incomplete emotions. My poem, " The Man Like You " is about an imaginary man who feels the depth of the woman, who wants to fulfill her dreams which are already turned to ashes, who encourages that woman to make her own identity. And to him, a ·woman does not even belong to the body only. That woman gradually falls for him and als...

Submission Call - Purple Hues 3     A call for submissions of short stories and poems for the third edition of Purple Hues Guidelines; 1- We accept both fiction and non-fiction in stories. 2-The stories and poems should resemble our THEME is some way. The Theme for Purple Hues-3 is INSPIRE. 3-We want the stories and poems to reflect the emotions of courage, bravery, joy, gratitude, hope, love, awakening, self-realization, pride, faith and re-instilling change in the mindsets. 4- Story and Poems should be in English and unpublished. The maximum limit for short story is 2000 words and maximum limit for the poem is 30 lines. 5- Co-authored stories and multiple submissions are allowed. 6- The selected participants need to pay Rs.2000 for the story and Rs.1000 for poems. 7- We would accept only one story per contributor and up to 4 poems.On the cover page of the submission, please give your complete contact information- Name, Address , C...

1- Tell us something about yourself. Describe yourself in three words. Ans. “I believe in my values and yet I’m modern” is the mantra of my life. My almighty has blessed me with a bunch of talents as I’m a professor, a poetess, an editor, a dancer, an actress, a trainer, a motivational speaker, an event coordinator and above all these, an ardent learner and a good human. I feel when God has gifted me with so many talents and blessings, I shouldn’t take them with me to my grave, in fact, I should revert them to him by doing something really worthwhile for this society. With the grace of God, the task has already begun. I have started organizing motivational talks and also my first anthology named ‘Blues under the Silver Hues’ is going to be a source of great inspiration for students, teachers as well as parents and bring smiles in their lives. Three words for me are: Conscientious, Ambitious, and Sensitive/Emotional 2- Tell us about your Poem? How did you get the idea for it? What is...

1- Tell us something about yourself. Describe yourself in three words. Procrastinator. Dreamer. Thinker. 2- Tell us about your Poem ? How did you get the idea for it? What  is it about? Actually, Four of my poems are selected in this beautiful anthology and all  of them are different. I’ve been a  loner since my childhood and this society sees us introverts as an  salien. This has been  reflected in my poem “Handshakes and Horrors” “The Promise” is a poem I wrote when I was leaving home the first time for  my job. It discusses the promise one should keep in his/her place of  origin. “Roots” also touches the same topic and more. 3- Tell us about your Relationship with your Parents ? Share an  incident from your Life where you felt deep gratitude towards your  family . My relationship with my parents is mostly smooth with a few ups and  downs here and there. After all life without a few (Mis)adventures is boring,  ain’t it? But...

1- Tell us something about yourself. Describe yourself in three words. Well, it has been a year since I have completed B.Tech in Computer Science. I got placed in Infosys but had to resign due to the medical emergency. Still recovering and trying to stand on my own feet financially as well Writing is the only passionate hobby that I have. I started writing poetry pieces back in school days. It was only during the final year of my college, my poems got printed in several anthologies. Presently I concentrate more on short stories. Three Words Are - Dreamer Of Reality. 2- Tell us about your Poem? How did you get the idea for it? What is it about? The first poem “A Circular Table” portraits that the relationship between children and their parents is circular in nature. It is your parents who brought you up and took care of you and during the last phase of their lives, it is you who gets the opportunity to do the same for them. I am sure readers are going to like it. The second poem “P...