Words come easy…

Manpriya Singh 

At the age when most youngsters’ aspirations centre around a few buzz words (read parties, driver’s license, bunking tuitions) 17-year-old Twesha Dikshit is happy in her own world. A world that she created through words, powerful emotions and profound thoughts. All of which find place in her maiden book on poems—Idiosyncrasy. 

“Well, I named the book so because to me they stand for my struggles, what I have been through and what all I felt at the time I wrote those lines,” she shares, all happy at joining Chandigarh’s literary circles. But to be able to convey and express emotions through words hasn’t been an easy ride. “When I came to the city from Welham Girls’ I suddenly found it difficult to acclimatize. I am a shy kid and the poetry is a way of conveying and sharing my deepest thoughts and emotions,” shares the Class 12 student whose first poem was at the age of 11. “It was on water conservation.” 

The love affair with words continued and a few thought-provoking ones came along starting in grade 11. Apart from the blog that she continues to maintain since the past two years, next in line could be a collection of short stories. She laughs, “I imagine different scenarios, involving people who become characters. I have an over-active imagination.” We bet.