I hail from a small state in the north-eastern extreme of India called Manipur. Like Jammu and Kashmir, this state has been wrought with militancy since the time I remember. Conflict on my home turf ,is partially responsible for me to have understood the real value of life and its hardships. 'With just three hours of power in a day, scanty drinking water, the cost of basic commodities very high and no job opportunities for the lay man due to mass corruption,one is forced to think about poverty and how to come out of it!" Born to an army officer in the Indian Army, my childhood was spent travelling the length and breadth of my country. " Living and interracting with different communities, caste and creed, I realised the problem of the entire country and the world was poverty."

I decided to carve a niche in trying to fight poverty, illiteracy and inequality of opportunities. With International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and UNICEF joint project in the north -east India, I was a grassroot worker, training and capacitating local women groups or Self Help Groups(SHGs) to become independent economic leaders of their community.Each household in the community was a unit of our development focus. Advocating government development programs in the village level, I worked deligently in rural developement. These formative years carved my future as a community development journalist in World Pulse and as a contributor in Voices for Human Rights.

With UNAIDS, a joint United Nations Program on HIV and AIDS, I have passionately pushed forth the advocacy program with the state government. "Halting and reversing the pandemic", has been the greatest challenge with respect to the HIV menace in my native.Today I see myself as a passionate journalist, a columnist in a leading English daily in India and an aspiring novelist. " I am enticed to journalism constantly for the pure love of writing but at the same time, I know I am more needed here in the field of social development.I want to do so much more!!"

Passionate about rights of transgenders/eunuchs, domestic violence, woman and child trafficking issues, child rights and education of the marginalized, rehabilitation of street children,care of the elderly, its a long way to go from now. But I know each milestone matters no matter how small because there is somone out there, a 'needy', who benefits out of it.And that keeps me going:):)

Sensitization is the first and most important milestone we need to cross if we are fighting for a cause.And I pray my pen can serve to do this very thing.