Writer, Teacher and the Ethos of Hills in her work: Mamta Joshi
"As I walked closer, the view was much clearer. The slender jagariya sang and swayed before the sacred dhuni, (fire) invoking the mountain spirits. A bewitched crowd watched as he mumbled “O divine guru, mother, father, in this redolent, evocative evening, only your name sustains us". These few lines from her recent work which was published in www.museindia.com , will make you instantly read her story that revolves around Kathgodam.
Mamta Joshi did her post graduation in History from the University of Allahabad. She took a course in Mass Communication from Maxwell College, Syracuse, U.S.A. Over the past two decades she has been teaching English and History to the college section in St. Mary’s Inter College, Allahabad, U.P. She writes short stories, reflective essays, prose pieces on every day life in national dailies and international E-magazines . She is a writer and a devoted teacher. She has been writing articles,poems with equal ease in Hindi and English. She writes extensively on day to day stories with humour, poignant articles and poems on Alzheimer etc.
You can get the ethos of our pahad in many of her writings, whether she is writing poems about the aipan art or the raw form of culture, attitudes and ground realities about Uttarakhand in her story "The Last Terminus". Having her roots in Almora, this is the town where her parents belonged to.
We believe writing is one the strongest ways to preserve any culture, and the masterpieces written by Mamta Joshi's are surely doing wonders. We would surely try to share more of her writings. It was wonderful to get in touch with someone with so much of experience and talent.
You can find the link of her masterpiece "The Last Terminus" below, we would love to hear your thoughts on this beautifully written story.
