Writing about science and dance..

Writing about science and dance.. 

In addition to doing science and dance, I also get to write about them! Words are my first love, and I remember being 2 or 3, sitting at the window sill, looking at river Sabarmati and admiring the shape of letters in my father's Business India magazine. Though I did not know what the words meant (I could not yet read), I knew the words had meaning! 

My love for writing was nurtured by my father Appa, and Margie Didi - editor of Wee Wonder, Times of India. Appa showed me how the written word can be used to highlight deserving people. Didi taught me how to use words to transform the world around me into something extraordinarily interesting. Both took an enormous amount of time reading and providing feedback, to which I am indebted.
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My dear friend Carol Schachter spent many an hour reading and editing my works, pointing out how a phrase could be made clearer to the reader. My husband Michael does the same - he does not rest till there is logical consistency in what I write. He can make the most convoluted scientific argument comprehensible. The sheer gratitude I have for those who have taken (and continue to take) time to better my writing, (paradoxically), cannot be put into words.