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| Tanvi Mathur with Father Victor Misquith in Jamshedpur. Picture by Bhola Prasad |
She started scribbling down her thoughts when she was 11-year-old. Ideas churned out by a young mind, hastily jotted down on pieces of paper lest they be forgotten.
Seven years later those pieces of paper have come together in a book.
Meet Tanvi Mathur, a Class XII student of Jamshedpur’s Loyola School whose book on poetry was published by Sunflower Publishers in March.
Tanvi, who appeared for her ISC board examinations recently, received a surprise on her birthday on March 8 when her proud parents Rajat and Ritu Mathur presented the book to her.
Titled A Rhyme For Every Reason, the book comprises a collection of 15 poems which cover a wide range of topics, which include grandmother’s love, phone calls, wishes and peace.
The Loyola School student, who has a flair for the English language candidly, admitted that she had never seriously thought of nurturing her passion for poetry and just wrote whatever she felt, most often after being inspired by her surroundings.
The bespectacled bubbly pure science student, who wants to be a computer science engineer someday, told The Telegraph that she now wanted to pay more attention to her writings from now on.
“I used to write poems as a hobby but never really thought of getting them published. The book was a surprise my parents had planned for my birthday. Now I want to take up writing more seriously,” Tanvi said.
“I started writing in 2005 when I was in Class VI. I never really followed a set pattern or routine with my writings. I just observe things carefully and if they inspire me they become my subjects. Writing is my hobby and my parents support me too,” said Tanvi, whose mother is a teacher at Telco’s Hill Top School.
Speaking to The Telegraph, Loyola principal Father Victor Misquith said that Tanvi had always been a meritorious student.
“She has always been a very helpful, active, dedicated and focused student. Not only academics, over the years I have also seen the girl taking part in various co-curricular activities too. However, I never knew that she was a poet. That until she came and handed me a copy of her book,” Father Victor said.