At 16, she has already penned two books

Deepkamal Kaur

Tribune News Service

Kapurthala, November 25

 She started penning short stories when she was barely 10. At 14, she became the author of a book – The best I can do is to write my heart out — a collection of 60 poems. At 16 now, Harsimran Kaur, a student of Cambridge International School here, has two books to her credit — the second one being a fiction, I am perfectly imperfect.

 Ask her how she could do it at such a young age, she responds, “I have been an avid reader since my childhood. I have enjoyed reading books authored by Mark Twain and Raold Dahl. At 10, when I wrote my first short story, I got a lot of encouragement from my parents and teachers to write more. Ever since, I somehow developed a unique relationship with writing.”

 Harsimran says that her chance visit to the portal Notionpress also evoked her interest in writing. “In it, I saw how young writers were encouraged to write more on the digital platform. In fact, my second book that got released in August 2019 had come out in the digital format. I also started using @harsimranwritesbooks on social media for reaching out more readers”, says the bidding writer, who also penned a poem ‘Lockdown’ in Covid days

 Her father Jagtar Singh Mand, a government school teacher, and mother Davinder Kaur say, “Harsimran is writing most of the time and when she is not, you can find her buried under a pile of books. Our daughter is indeed a gifted child. She is a very keen learner and expresses her love towards various subjects like literature and history. She loves to educate others about the importance of education and considers former First Lady of the US Michelle Obama as her idol.”

 A student of humanities, Harsimran added that she is also founder of Pastlores — an online history club where she connects with people and researchers across the globe and discusses about various elements of history. She has currently written two drafts which are yet to be published and is halfway through the draft of another book which she classifies as Near Eastern Civilizations’ History. She is also researching about Mesopotamian Civilization, under her unnamed new project and says that she will be publishing a research paper soon.