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Usually it takes years for children to decide what they want to be when they grow up. For others, it’s quite simple and they know early on. Shaurya Mishra is among them; chasing a dream during lockdown to become an author at an age of 10.
The world of literature has undergone rapid, dynamic changes over the years, but fairy tales and children’s stories are a genre of writing that has remained relevant. For generations, Hans Christian Andersen, Enid Blyton and R K Narayan have delighted parents and kids with their timeless tomes. Shaurya Mishra of Ahmedabad is desperate to join the league.
The book, titled “Space Mafia on the Loose” is about space adventures, where space habitants try to steal planets. Shaurya, the 10-year-old author and a student of class 5 in Delhi Public School, says, “This is my first experience with book writing. It took me about two months to write. I want my creativity and imagination not to take a back seat and get rusted. I need to stay motivated and keep my creative juice flowing.”
So what inspired him to write this book? Staying indoors in his Safal Parivesh (Prahlad Nagar) apartments during the Lockdown, Shaurya literally ran riot with his imaginations and put in the book predicting a horrible Space war in the future.
“I was getting bored as there were not regular classes, missing my friends; play in the apartments ground was also banned due to Corona. I started thinking of Space in the period when everything was in a Vacuum. The teachings were done in virtual mode that gave enough time to “image and write the book,” says son of Bimlesh Kumar Mishra , a top executive in a British organisation and an LLM degree holder lawyer Shreya Mishra.
The grandson of Krishna Kumar Mishra, a retired Indian Oil Corporation officer staying at Boring Road having roots in a small village-Dehru in Darbhanga district adds: “From Anatrtica, my mind jumped fast to the Space, invented some codes to communicate within the Space, like Alpha war, D class (Disposable class), wardrobe where machines and guns are kept, heavy compartment zones (resembling containment zones), all my imaginations. There are imaginary characters like Gummy,Sneaky,Blue,Baraa and Toyota in the entire book and through them I imagined space adventures.”
It is perhaps his capacity to imagine that helped him in getting Gold Medal in October 2019 at the National Rubik’s Cube championship organised by the Indian Cubes Association. The CEO of the Association, Eusebus Narohna complimented him by saying, “We are proud of your hard work and determination.”
The excerpts of the 83-page book include, “”Nothing lasts forever. It was quite silent in Antarctica, a crewmate named Black and his family of three kids and a wife lived there. Black lost his two kids and his wife too, the third child disappeared. Black had two problems-The Space Mafia attack and Rash virus. Black had betrayed his crew members in the Spaceship attack”.
“And then Lover 1 said, It is our fault, we should trust Red. Both three hug themselves and Toyota said: It is a proud privilege to meet you guys.And, then the Reactor blasted.”
