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For Nirmala Trivedi, Poetry is a type of creativity by depicting words, phrases, and sometimes own experience or from other inspirational sources and reframing
them as poetry by making changes in meanings and imaginations, or by adding new thoughts , thus imparting new meaning.
Personal Profile:
My name is Nirmala Trivedi. I was born in Orissa where my father was posted as an IAS officer. I was the first born child in the new generation of Tiwaris which
was a combined family of six brothers. I was much loved and pampered by the entire family. I got married when I was at Cuttack. After my marriage, I came to
Kanpur and went with my husband, a U.P. cadre officer of IAS. I had two lovely kids, a son and a daughter. I entered the field of working in 1989 and got articles
published in leading newspapers. I shifted to poetry in 1993 and it continues till date.
Persona:

I am basically a kind hearted and generous person, always extending help with no return expected except good behaviour. I am a private person yet I enjoy having
intellectual discussions with people of substance. I take quick decisions following my heart. The other side of my personality is adaptability to all types of
situations- normal or trying. That is a basic trait. I am a family oriented person. My loved ones are my top priority. I am also very particular about
cleanliness/hygiene. There is a deep sense of it ingrained in me. I don't like to be taken for granted or ignored. I am not status conscious and if my first move does
not bring adequate response, I prefer to move on. I am an emotional person. Writing for me is a divine experience and while writing I get into a trance when my
surroundings become invisible to me. Normally I am able to complete a poem in 10 to 15 minutes. I am amazed at the speed with which compositions floating in
the cosmos reach me and it is followed by appropriate words. Yet all my compositions/lyrics remain original and I am proud of this fact.
I write in both Hindi as well as English.
Achievements:

I had a streak of creative writing from my school days and later when my teenage children became self-dependent, my urge for creative writing got revived.
I wrote on women issues in leading newspapers. It had a unique style of telling meaningful stories without pontificating and it became very popular. I wrote
nearly 150 articles within 4 years.
My emotional side was now forcing me towards poetry writing. I have written 10,000 of them so far in past 25 years. I wrote at least a poem a day at the very least
and sometimes it would be 5-6 in a day. T. Series was impressed with my Bhajans and they have so far brought out 5 albums. Lyrics/compositions both are mine
as are all my other poetic creations.
I joined FaceBook on 1.11.2015 and have an inclusive poetry page and by now my 1052 poems have reached 1.25 crores readers. Approximately 10lakhs have
liked and approximately 1 lakh have commented on it till date. There are 35000 followers.

Inspirational Works:
Besides my creative writing, I enjoyed my time teaching in a public school. There I had reserved 10minutes of time for pep talk to the students. If a student was
Nirmala Trivedi sad, I would draw him out and comfort him. To others I would narrate an interesting story. And without my realising, there was a slow transformation in them.

Some students from non veg families stopped eating meat. I taught in the school for 10 years reliving my children's growing up. And for me they were like my

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