Stray Writings

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Quite in young age I started expressing my views through letters to the editors in Hindi newspapers. Writing became a regular feature for me when I had to write in Hindi and English on ABVP (Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad) related matters after I joined the organisation. Then came the phase of expressing myself on different subjects both in Hindi and English in newspapers and periodicals, more in Hindi than English, and in English I wrote the most in year 2004 courtesy Organiser weekly. Then off and on I kept expressing in both the languages. In English writing it was a kind of break for me when I wrote for Indian Express in 1993 on issue of demolition of Babri structure in Ayodhya and in Hindustan Times in 1997 on outcome of Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU) election. As I was deeply involved in ABVP I analysed DUSU election results twice later in Pioneer daily and Organiser weekly also Writing a 3 part article in Organiser weekly in June 2004 soon after Lok Sabha election was my peak and I felt like having become a litterateur in same year when two of my brief writings in Organiser on Gujarat and related to a social organisation were published. Last piece I wrote on my own was in 2011 in Organiser and then it was only in 2020 when I wrote for Indian Express on demand and explicit assurance that my labour would not go waste. I wrote very few letters to the editor in English as my success rate was not encouraging. This book contains three letters which were not published but which I consider as worth presenting to the readers. **Contents and Sample Pages**