"Life is happening while you are busy making plans," said John Lennon.
Stories are happening as you are living your life! That's my theme for this collection. A smile or a chance encounter can make you view life differently. It's not just a 6- year old having a puppy follow him home. It can be at 60 too! What happens if a statue starts talking and says, enough is enough to statue politics? What if our memory decides to take a walk? Do we ask a visually challenged person if he really wants to cross the road? What happens when patriarchy meets democracy? Is there an age to offer help or does our hand follow our heart?
These and many more such slices of life make Vignettes my collection of flash fiction what it is.
Chandrika Krishnan is a Bangalore-based, Indian writer and educationist and like all things beginning with a ‘T’ – talking, teaching, tales and tea. She considers herself a late bloomer that even now she feels partially unfurled. She had taught in schools, colleges and taken online classes even before the pandemic. She is also a trained counselor and believes in the concept of being a lifelong learner.
Her writings are mostly eclectic and experiential. She observes and feels that people cross the road like she did the Math teachers, the minute they spied her! They are afraid that what they say may find its way into her writings. Her cerebrations can be as mundane as an observation on how people jump queues or can be as Supramundane as what happens after we die.
She started writing around her seventeenth year and her first story was published then. She has published close to three hundred articles, poems, and short stories in various print and online media.
Her stories have been featured in a dozen anthologies. She is a published author of her own collection of flash fiction. All her books are available on Amazon. She has also won or featured in various writing contests.
Most of her thoughts and ideas happen over a cup of tea in her hand. She loves her tea to such an extent that her family knows that they come second only to her cup of tea!
Besides writing, She loves to read, watch movies spread across languages, teach underprivileged children and volunteer at a local hospital and is also associated with an organization that cooks and feeds the underprivileged once a month.
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