Sushmita Srivas – Her Story

Sushmita Srivas, It’s a very famous name but with different surnames. She wanted to break the stereotypical mentality of society as the Miss Universe did. Her journey started with being an average confused student to being an Author. Her journey of writing started in her tenth standard with essay writing. Being an average-grade student, she was never acknowledged by any teachers as studies were the most important thing for any school or teacher (more than years back). She went to St. Mary’s Convent School in Bareilly.

During the starting of her tenth, she got an interest in story reading. She reads all the stories before the session starts. In her first English class, she gave the task to the class to write an essay on “the freedom fighter” by the English Teacher.

That is a day she was very excited to do her homework. She thought the whole day what to write but didn’t get anything. She thought to give it a try with the first line of the title. When she started writing, writing her first line, it all came along. Every word, every line, comes by itself as she already knew what to write. She wrote the essay in a story format that no one has written like that before.

On the day of submission of the essay, her teacher asked everyone to read out loud their essays. When her turn came to read the essay and present her first story to the world, everybody was surprised. It wasn’t expected of an average-grade student to present the essay in such a beautiful manner. Her teacher was surprised and happy to hear the whole story.

She praised her and nominated Sushmita Srivas’s story for the school magazine. It was the first time that an essay was published in the school magazine. It was the first time the crowd saw her. As the pressure of studies rose, she stopped writing and focused on her studies.

Sushmita Srivas

In 2009, Sushmita Srivas cleared the engineering entrance exam and joined JSSATEN in Noida. She is a very chirpy, talkative yet shy girl. She always likes to tell stories with her friends. During her college days, whenever she got time, she used to write stories in a diary. Once her friend found that diary and started reading while she was away.

When she came, she saw her friends were reading her diary. When she asked about it, her friends said that The stories were excellent and she should pursue a writing career. They explained that she described the characters and their emotions well so that it felt that it was her own story they were reading.

Later Sushmita Srivas graduated after completing her engineering as a production engineer and got placed into one major MNC in Noida. She worked in the company for almost one and a half years, then later she resigned.

Meanwhile, Sushmita Srivas got into an accident and broke her elbow, giving her enough time to decide and think. She never had a dream to settle for less or just for a job. She wants to achieve more, more that she could stay satisfied with herself, with her dream. She always said, “Job wo karo jisse satisfaction mile, na k wo jo paise de” in her college days. And she applied that in herself too.

She left the job and went back home. She was confused between her job and her dream. Her parents, too, were not happy with the decision she took. One day at home, when she searched for some books in her cupboard, she found her diary, the diary where she started the stories. While reading all her stories, she found that there was one story that was left incomplete. 

In the final year of her college, Sushmita Srivas left the writing because of one of her best friends’ sudden death. She was very dear to Sushmita. She was the one who encouraged her to write more and made her promise to write a book in her life. After finding the incomplete story, Sushmita starts over to write one.

Her early days of writing were difficult as in the middle-class family. Nobody wants their children to opt for a profession that is counted as a hobby. She faced many problems during that time to explain the value of writing in her life. As the days passed, the family stopped talking about the career decision she wanted to take. 

Sushmita Srivas was scared and frustrated as she couldn’t get the idea and inspiration to write the story. To create a story, one needs the space and deduction, which was missing with her. She was getting depressed and couldn’t sleep at night. One night she decided to stay awake and watch the moon just sitting in her room. While enjoying the silence of the night, she took a pen and paper and wrote a paragraph:

“Every End has a new beginning, so does my story. But between these two ends, we face many layers of emotions. And sometimes, it becomes difficult to explain what you are going through and how you get over that. But time, the most powerful thing in this world, heals everything, and there is always a happy day after a sad day.”

Sushmita Srivas continues “But I think differently. I think after every SAD day, there will always be a MAD day. Doing something MAD in your life sometimes becomes tragic, but sometimes it makes your life yeoman because every second of our lives teaches us something which steers our next steps. This story is about compassion, love, excitement, enjoyment, challenge, grief, and about living with pain. I have a story that is also the milkshake of all these words.

So, like every story, this story also starts where two persons met, fell in love, but were never happy after that, and a bolt out of the blue just changed everything. 

EVERY TIME STORY IS NOT ABOUT THE HAPPY ENDING, BUT IT’S ALL ABOUT THE ENDING WHICH MAKES US HAPPY, EXACTLY LIKE NOT EVERY LOVE STORY IS JUST ABOUT THE LOVE. IT CAN BE LOVE AND A STORY.

Sushmita Srivas wrote these beautiful lines and realized that night was the best time to pour herself into the paper. From the very next night, she started her pouring her imagination and creativity into that story. Within six months, she completed the story almost to the end but stuck on the end. She didn’t want to give the ending, which is so apparent, so she chooses to surprise her readers with a twist in the end. 

While writing a story at night, she began her search for a publisher in the days. She mailed numerous emails to many publishers. Some responded some didn’t. It was a very heartbreaking moment as she didn’t know whether her story would be published or it would remain the diary for the rest of her life.

On the day of her last line of the story that she wrote last night, she got a response from several publishers. It was the happiest day of her life in ages. She sent her work to them, and one of them liked her work and was happy to get the story published. 

She gets to call with him, and the journey of publishing a story starts. Before starting anything, he asked her one simple question: “Title of the story,” which is yet to be written. Then it came all to a break because it was hard to decide a title that could explain the story in words.

Sushmita Srivas decided to read her story like other readers and then decide, and it worked.

On 28 May 2016, her book came on all the online E-commerce platforms with a name :

“A Month Love~Story”

A Month Love~Story

Sushmita Srivas reading her book “A Month Love~Story”

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