Its not a surprise that the literary talent in this country is so highly oppressed and their room for growth is limited within dull and basic four walls. Whoever heard of one aspiring to become a writer anyway, and whoever cared enough to read manuscripts of budding writers?
Whoever saw an Indian literary magazine hit the stands - and then sell? Whoever found encouragement in teenage magazines for poetry and prose, instead of boys and make-up? Whoever conducted workshops or even competitions for creative writing?
Ask a near-commerce twelfth-grade graduate what it feels to have dreams to make it big in that industry and not have a single course/source to help him/her out. Ask him/her what it feels to know that no one cares enough to even critique what his/her has written.
Ask me.
A thorough scan of the entire city and its offerings has brought me to a sad conclusion - its time to make it on your own.
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