Introduction

I think I was six or seven years old when I first wrote something that I would call my own creation. It was a comic book with childish sketches and stories with pictures. Much like children influenced by fairy tales at that time, mine too was about princesses and princes and how they meet and live happily ever after. Then one day, deta, my father, in his gentle, loving manner asked me "majoni (my darling), does your princess always have to be tall, fair- skinned, rich and famous? What else does she do apart from waiting for her prince? Are there other qualities you would like to write about?" Those questions in my tender mind were the beginning of a journey into seeking new perceptions, unfamiliar thinking and spaces...simple questions from a man I have always looked up to ...a man who lived fully in the short life that he lived. You had to meet him once to love him forever.  A brilliant engineer, musician, artist and more, deta (Ranjit Kumar Borooah) was also the youngest Assamese child actor in the first Assamese film Joymoti...

Ma (Neeti Borooah), my mother and confidante, was a poet and Sanskrit language educator. Ma nurtured my writing further and published my first book of poems, Afterthoughts. Ma also translated these poems into Assamese in a prolific and poignant manner, as Uttarbhabona. Writers Workshop, Kolkata (India) then published my next three books Vermilion and other poems, Reflections, and Poems and Impressions.

I grew up in Duliajan, Assam, in a creative and loving home with my parents, my sister and our soul family members, nani (devi sonar), mali (hazrat ali) and others. My parents welcomed people from all walks of life and every corner of the world...explorers, artists, scientists, musicians and more...learnings I treasure more each year that goes by. I have also learned that tough times in different forms will present itself but ease and comfort are around the corner as well. And, a sense of appreciation ultimately makes life worthwhile...I continue living this way with my life partner Marsh, friends and family.

So, here I am, giving form to my thoughts, through images and words, that flow into my life, often...in the pauses between.

Thank you for stopping by

Mimi