She's creative with the pen

Author Jhumpa Lahiri may have made headlines the world over after she bagged the prestigious Pulitzer award and also made people back here in Kolkata really proud, but one of the city''s budding authors, 18 year old Arunika Das has done her school, friends and parents and the city no less happy.
This class XII science stream student of Our Lady Queen of the Missions has beat 15,000 school students from across the country, to secure the sixth position nationally in a young author talent hunt contest."The contest was judged in three steps, school, city and then nationally,"said Anurika whose winning story, "Took off from where a Greek myth left off, and was titled, Two minutes to save the world."
An avid reader, she likes to read science fictions, novels and everything in between. "My favourite author is Vikram Seth,"said the youngster who is also the editor of her school magazine, besides being the winner of a number of creative writing contests in the city. Ask her what the best thing in the whole contest was, besides winning the prize that is, and she said without batting an eyelid, "Meeting Ruskin Bond who was one of the judges during our two-day interactive session with the panel in Delhi."Well, we might just have found a budding Pulitzer Award winner. Who knows?
himika.chaudhuri@timesgroup.com