If He Knew I Was a Writer Too

By Laleeta Tongo

IF I KNEW I WAS A WRITER TOO –

This was never meant to be a book, as Laleeta wrote these expressions recollecting her journey as a writer. She just wanted to scribble the experiences people go through that she witnessed around her - music, and daily activities to examine universal themes like the wonders of relationships, the identity of the self, happiness, death and spirituality, philosophy, her fantasies, and love. After writing more than a handful of poems, web series, and regional films; it was the right time for her to publish her first collection of poetry. If you read her writing, you will know that expressing the innermost human feelings via different forms of the medium - is something which she holds very dear to her heart. Poetry is where she feels most at home.

She wonders if her grandfather – who was a renowned Marathi novelist from India – had known that she could also write well, they would’ve discussed several ideas and he might have seen the artist in her.

• Language: English
• Publisher: One Point Six Technologies Pvt Ltd
• Release date: Jun 15, 2023
• ISBN: 9789356672376

Laleeta Tongo

A storyteller, an expressionist, and a dreamer with an intent to make a mark, born and brought up in a small town in Maharashtra, India, and later settled in the United States, Laleeta hailed from a family of artists. Her inherent talent comes from her grandfather, Lt. Shri. Sharadchandra Tongo - a famous Marathi novelist of India. Laleeta has been in touch with literature of various sorts and has always been determined to produce some of her own - always shy to publish.After post-graduating in English Literature, Laleeta has started working as a curricula developer, and content writer in MNC for the last 15 years. Simultaneously, in 2017, Laleeta and her closest friend started a Pune-based, media production company named The Big World Studios under which she has written and produced a couple of short films, feature-length films in Marathi, and several scripts for promotional and ad videos. She religiously enrolled on Stanford's Creative Writing workshop which gave her an entirely new perspective on writing. When she’s not sipping a cup of tea and scribbling the plot of her next story in her notepad, she enjoys cooking, decorating, goofing around with her son, Archis, and being outdoors with her sports and nature-loving husband, Suhas, and her beautiful goldendoodle dog, Iris.IF HE KNEW I WAS A WRITER TOO is a collection of her reflections that she scribbled on paper which unknowingly became her first published poetry book. This book is dedicated to her late grandfather who was a famous writer in India. She strongly thinks if he knew she was a writer too, they would have exchanged a lot of different ideas, which could have shaped her writing, as well as her life. A reader will cherish this book where womanhood is captured and cherished with a lot of integrity.

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eISBN 978-93-5667-237-6

Copyright © Laleeta Tongo, 2023

First published in India 2023 by Leadstart Inkstate

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Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. All the names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents in this book are either the product of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

Editor: Sanjhee Gianchandani

Cover: Swapnil Behere

Layouts: Sathish Kumar

Contents

About The Author

Acknowledgement

An Ode To My Grandfather

1. The Purpose

2. The Balancing Act

3. A Shot Of Zen

4. How Many?

5. Too Much To Ask

6. A Place Called You

7. Nightmarish Reality

8. Lost In Appearances

9. Freewill

10. Unredeemed Bonds

11. My Kind

12. Before Making That Proposal

13. Oh! Realisation

14. Searching For Lost Words

15. Superficiality