I vividly recall the day as a tenth grader when my French teacher nominated my name for the post of my school's French Club's Deputy Director. Three years earlier, when I joined my present alma mater, its Principal had discouraged me from taking French as my 'third language'. The concern and opposition to allow me to study French was genuine by all standards but mine, for I was fired by a passion that refused to take 'no' for an answer. ...

A mouse, which can talk, owns a pet dog, little girls fly around the town fighting evil, crabs sell patties, humongous creatures come out of pocket-sized balls to battle on the whims of teenagers… Such was the two-dimensional world I, as a five-year-old, dreamt of living in. My questions about the nature and existence of ‘my’ world were well received by my mother, who instantly recognized my latent passion for digital media and helped me discover the passageway into the...

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