Writer's name: Shweta Ganesh Kumar
Title of work: The Long Road Home
Genre: short story
Name of magazine/journal: Pothiz
Issue: August 2010
Author's bio: Shweta Ganesh Kumar is a writer and a freelance travel journalist who is based in the Philippines with articles frequently appearing in the New Indian Express. Prior to this she was a Communications Officer for Greenpeace India and a correspondent with CNN-IBN (CNN’s Indian sister concern). She has contributed articles for ‘Chicken Soup for the Indian Spiritual Soul’ and ‘CBW’s India’s Top 42 Weekend Getaways’. She has written columns for publications like the One Philippines and Your Story. Her short fiction has been published in literary journals like Australian Women online, Single Solitary Thought, Pothiz and the Asia Writes project. She writes a column for The NRI, an online magazine and is also a guest blogger for Pratham Books.
Excerpt:
“Wake up, Roy. Wake up! You’ll be late for school.” Sister’s persistent voice rang through his dreams. With his eyes still stubbornly shut, he turned over from his side and lay on his back. He knew that he would have to wake up in less than two minutes. She would not stop nagging him otherwise. He lifted his left hand and wiped away the drool on the corner of his mouth with the back of it. “Royyy.”
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Title of work: The Long Road Home
Genre: short story
Name of magazine/journal: Pothiz
Issue: August 2010
Author's bio: Shweta Ganesh Kumar is a writer and a freelance travel journalist who is based in the Philippines with articles frequently appearing in the New Indian Express. Prior to this she was a Communications Officer for Greenpeace India and a correspondent with CNN-IBN (CNN’s Indian sister concern). She has contributed articles for ‘Chicken Soup for the Indian Spiritual Soul’ and ‘CBW’s India’s Top 42 Weekend Getaways’. She has written columns for publications like the One Philippines and Your Story. Her short fiction has been published in literary journals like Australian Women online, Single Solitary Thought, Pothiz and the Asia Writes project. She writes a column for The NRI, an online magazine and is also a guest blogger for Pratham Books.
Excerpt:
“Wake up, Roy. Wake up! You’ll be late for school.” Sister’s persistent voice rang through his dreams. With his eyes still stubbornly shut, he turned over from his side and lay on his back. He knew that he would have to wake up in less than two minutes. She would not stop nagging him otherwise. He lifted his left hand and wiped away the drool on the corner of his mouth with the back of it. “Royyy.”
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