Books
Cancer
I am allergic to yeast, addicted to tea and I have a huge dislike for winters.
Not being able to fulfil my potential or to come to an impasse where I stop growing as a writer.
To be able to balance: keeping my inner fire burning and staying inspired; being a Mother to a beautiful girl; and shaping lives towards intellectual progress and growth as a Professor.
Receiving a Gold Medal by Panjab University in 2013 for standing first in M.Phil. English.
There’s always a lot I have to be grateful for.
Professor Shelley Walia - It is magical to hear him speak.
It has to be Howard Roark from The Fountainhead By Ayn Rand.
It is quite difficult to get through Othello without brimming with anger and frustration caused by Iago’s character.
Louise Glück (Ah! She’s amazing), Salman Rushdie, Ayn Rand (all time favourite) and Susan Sontag.
An Imaginary Live by David Malouf, Safar Mein Dhoop Toh Hogi by Nida Fazli, The Horse’s Mouth by Joyce Cary, Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie, and Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.
I love reading 'In a Jar' by Deborah Marcero and 'We Are in a Book' by Mo Willems to my daughter over and over again.
The Shawshank Redemption, La La Land, You’ve Got a Mail, Freedom Writers and Mona Lisa Smile.
I wish I could live thorough life without having to sleep/Elimination of the need to sleep so that my mind gets more time to read and write more.
Her world was made up of words.
I wouldn’t change a thing from how it has been. All my experiences have made me the person I am and they are the sacred source of my inspiration.
I would love to be an expert ukulele player, a swift swimmer and an smooth skater.
Bluets by Maggie Nelson
Mostly I visit the Library in the morning and find myself a corner to sit and write poems. I carry a dairy or few blank pages and a clutch pencil to write with.
I don't see this as a choice. Both - at different points in time.
Allez-y!
None, I took Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott too seriously.
The ingredients written at the back of every packaged thing.
Self-doubt is your greatest enemy; value your words and they'll become more and more valuable.
Poorva Trikha is a senior Assistant Professor of English at GGDSD college, Chandigarh. She has been writing poetry since the age of 12 and has published three books titled “Leftover Ink”, “Photojournalism” and “Worded Void”. She did her Ph.D. in English from Department of English and Cultural Studies at Panjab University. Her poems have been published in many journals including The Tribune, The Criterion and Muse India. She was awarded the ‘21st Century Emily Dickinson Award’ in 2022 by Bookleaf Publishing house. Her deepest interests include reading, writing, cooking and crocheting. Ellipses is her fourth book of poems. She writes routinely at her Instagram page @wordedvoid
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