In 1978, as a teenager, I wrote my first poem, ‘My Struggle’, an amateurish attempt at defining my life goals. When I read it over to my father, who was a published author himself he said, “Son, this is where your heart...

I am an author by passion and a doctor by profession. As a girl of 8 years, my ambition was to publish my writings as a poet in newspaper and magazines. I started writing with this enthusiasm and composed my first poem...