Spotlight On Writers
Anoucheka Gangabissoon
- Where, do you hail from?
- What is the greatest thing about the place you call home?
I love two things about my island. The first is the peace that allows people of different creeds to follow their chosen faith in a good spirit of tolerance and acceptance. It is a blessing to walk on streets and to see different types of places of worship built side by side. The second is the sight of angry waves crashing upon cliffs. I can sit and watch them for hours.
- What turns you on creatively?
The need to be immortal in an ephemeral world. I write because I feel I need to express myself, but, it is my romantic dream to be talked about in literature classes for eons to be, after I shall have left this world. I write of anything that moves me deeply, be it at a personal or social level.
- What is your favorite word, and can you use it in a poetic sentence?
Dream
I walk my path as would a seeker blindly following the tunes I keep hearing in my dreams, pulling me upon paths that I used to avoid, too scared of tripping and falling only to fall with my destination in the end.
- What is your pet peeve?
Lack of respect for what makes each of us what we are. My favorite motto is live and let live. If I choose a path that the rest of the world do not, I am to be respected for such. I hate it when I get thrown with sarcastic criticisms merely for being me.
- What defines Anoucheka Gangabissoon?
I like to keep my feet on the ground and remain humble. I may have achieved a lot for a young poet/author but, in the end, I remain a very simple woman who likes to dwell upon the mystical, the spiritual and the magical essence of life. And I also like to be simple and to live for myself, without needing to please others first.
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