ஹாய்! Hi! you have been here atleast 3 times before; don't you think we have started liking each other? Stay updated when I update this site by subscribing to the site feed. Thanks! நன்றி

Enter your email address: Delivered by FeedBurner

My friend, who is a regular reader of my blog, having read my brother’s blog as well, told me that writing is probably  in our genes.

I was thinking about it today.  I think my friend is right. Most people who have some creativity should be having it in their genes.  Writing is also one of the creative skills.

Looking back at the history of my family, I found that at least two of my ancestors had a history of writing.

My maternal grand father was a sub-editor of the highly respected Tamil newspaper of  yesteryears, Swadesamitran.  My grand father V.V. Narasimhan, had worked with Sandilyan, the famous author of historical novels such as Yavana Rani, Kadal Pura etc. during his tenure with Swadesamitran before he died in  at the age of 35  in the year 1950.  I have seen old magazine cuttings in my house that had his stories written in his nick name “Kesari” (none of them available now ).  I have heard from my grandmother and my mother that he was a very good writer.

Next to my grandfather, my paternal uncle, who is also no more, used to write poetry and stories and even tried to make it to the tinsel world as a song writer.  My mother tells me that he had met Kavignar Vaali several times and probably enjoyed a decent friendship with him during the 60s.  He died of electric shock in 1967. I was just two years old then.

My father and his brothers were very good in drawing and crafts but could not extend their creativity either due to responsibilities towards family.

I started writing around the age of 16, the age in which most people start writing “kavithai” (poetry) looking at the world with new and different view point, as an adolescent.  My first poem was published in “Dinamalar” in the year 1982 and I even got Rs.15 from the magazine for that poem.  To make that event memorable, I ran to a book shop and bought with that money, “Your First Move”, an excellent book on Chess.

My writing continued till I was in college.  After I took up CA, I almost stopped writing anything other than audit reports (they were separate stories in their own right!).

In the period between 1984 t0 2005, if I wrote something interesting it was in the form of letters to my family and if it was something romantic it was to my would-be wife.

Other than that there was nothing of note that I wrote in that 15 year period.

In making the above statement I have discounted as writing, 1000s of emails I wrote as part of my official duties and as part of keeping up contacts with my friends.  If you work somewhere, you will know that such emails always have good imagination as one explain to the bosses why or why not something was done or not done.

Late 2005, I started blogging .  Since then I have been almost regularly writing.  My writing spread to my youngest brother who also started to blog around 2006. He is now writing tamil posts revealing his super writing skills hitherto invisible to all of us in the family.   One of my other three brothers is very good in mimicry (he mimics friends and relatives extremely well) and the other two are writing comments to blog posts

Not to be left behind my eldest son Niranjan showed his creative self and wrote two poems when he was in school and then wrote a Harry Potter fan fiction.   My second son Anand Surya is also creative.  He is interested in doing animations and has done some nice animations in power point.  Some of his flash animations can be seen here.

Now it seems the creativity is spreading to my youngest son Akshay, who is just four years old.  He doesn’t know how to write but seems to be aware that a picture can speak thousand words.  So, he wrote 28000 words today as can be seen in the picture below.

I have serially numbered each 1000 words written by him and leaving you to figure(!) out what they convey.  For those who need help it will be at hand in my next post

Readers also liked

• Nothing official about it (0)
• Commenters – How important are they for blog authors? (3)