I guess I wanted to be a journalist since the day I started liking cricket and that cricketer!😜 And the realization that I could write! That was way back in 1992. Thus, my sole ambition in life was to be a sports journalist and meet that cricketer! I worked hard towards my goal.
So eventually when in 1997 I got the opportunity to be a trainee journalist with a daily newspaper, I went to Wankhede Stadium to interview my favourite cricketer - the love of my life then!🤭 But that interview shattered me to the core - his treatment of me as a journalist, that too to someone who was his greatest fan, was something I didn't like - his behaviour was a total put-off. He wanted to complete his interview in the car - so he gave me a lift in his car from Wankhede stadium to Elphistone Road - the place where he dropped me was so far from the railway station. So I had to walk a lot to go to the station. I didn't like this too a bit. Plus his cold attitude towards me was a total put-off. That was the last time I liked him. That was I suppose in October.
This incident helped me to come out of my infatuation with him. Since then I have hated him as a cricketer.
But I have always loved writing. But when my professional writing was being criticized I left that also. Then covid happened and we were in a lockdown. It was then in 2020 that I started writing only for the Lord. I realized that I was a different kind of writer - though I always loved writing, my writing was meant for a different genre.
And then NAINEN happened and I began again as a professional writer! This gave me the confidence to begin my second innings as a professional writer. I even made a comeback to my favourite field of writing - the gems and the jewellery industry. And the rest, as they say, is history.🤗
So a very happy Journalism Day to me!🤗
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