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Ratna Srivastava

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A passionate kindergarten teacher for over fifteen years, I quit my soul-satisfying teaching career to become an author overnight after experiencing sudden mysterious spiritual urge for public writing.
My first endeavour at writing was to pen my intimate thoughts on life and spirituality and writing children's stories. I only later realised that almost everyone since my childhood had been telling me to become a writer!
A deep spiritualist at heart, I feel strongly about Earth, nature and humanity. By writing Emit Eht I aim to awaken readers towards those unknown problems of humanity's future that may well be a ghastly reality one day that we are completely unprepared for.
I am married and live with my husband and child in Munich, Germany, my
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Ratna Srivastava Many! Being a writer is like being a God! You wield lethal powers of creation and destruction while you candidly sip your coffee.
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Writing is like living several lives all at once. (And so is reading!)
Writing is like taking crap; you can't stop it even if you wanted to.
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What it's like being a writer

A writer's life is so romantic, so dreamy and so intoxicating that if given the choice- many would want to be one right away.

For years my life had oscillated between my family and my kindergarten. Even after spending nearly two decades in the same profession, my every day was as fresh and new as a morning-dewy spring rose. It made me feel like an emperor in my realm. Happy as a lark, I laughed and Read more of this blog post »
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“One tends to look at life a whole lot differently when one realises they may lose it soon.
-Emit Eht”
Ratna Srivastava, Emit Eht

“The outcome of a mistake determines it was a mistake or not, because the problem with them is often times you don't know if you are making one.
Most people actually think they are the genius of the century while only being the fool of a millennia.
Also vice versa..!
-Emit Eht”
Ratna Srivastava, Emit Eht

“If your mind is in chains, nothing can free you. If your mind is free, nothing can enslave you. You can't become anyone's prisoner before becoming your own prisoner first,
-Emit Eht

Emit Eht, Ratna Srivastava, Philosophy, Life, wisdom, intelligence, inspirational, motivational,”
Ratna Srivastava, Emit Eht

“Writing is like taking crap; you can't stop it even if you wanted to.
Writing is like being God of a universe where you wield lethal powers of creation and destruction while you candidly sip your coffee.
Writing is like living several lives all at once. And so is reading!”
Ratna Srivastava, Emit Eht

“We both are thieves: time and I. I steal time from time. If I don't, the time steals me.”
Ratna Srivastava

“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
Rabindranath Tagore

“Life likes to do to us what we do to it. If we are scared of it, it scares us too. If we try to escape it, it gets us by our neck.If we try to chase it, it slips us by. If we love it, it simply loves us back.
-Emit Eht”
Ratna Srivastava, Emit Eht

“I don't mind being a bitch to bitches. It is orgasmically satisfying! And dumb bitches? You don't even exist in my universe.
-Emit Eht”
Ratna Srivastava, Emit Eht

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