About Me
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. This has been the mantra for eleven-year-old Vaimitra Chandrasehar who hails from the city of Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Her creativity and imagination blossomed from the age of four, when she made her first story book. Ensuring the spelling of the words she wrote with her grandma, Vaimitra wrote her first story in a few sheets of four-line paper, attached to a cardboard and made it look like a book- Story of a Cat and a Dog. She made friends with books from the age of two and a half when she used to listen to stories.
Vaimitra Chandrasehar
an Author, Theater Writer & Director
She eventually started showing interest in drawing and coloring, music and is now pursuing key board, guitar and Carnatic music. She has rendered her voice for two music albums,children’s rhymes and a Tamil movie song and plays a key role in her school choir group. She is also a member in a karaoke music group – “Dhwani”.
Vaimitra’s inclination towards art and crafts made her explore and nurture her interest in making useful and creative things from scrap. This includes puppets, photo frames, quilling, jewelry sets. Vaimitra also makes hand-made gifts for her dear and near ones-the latest one was designing T shirts for her little cousins.
Her writing capability got unveiled when one day she wanted to send a few of her poems and short stories to children’s books and magazines for publishing. This paved the way for her first book” Take a Break”, which is a collection of her short stories and poem. The book was launched in March 2017 at the Odyssey book store, Chennai.
When it comes to writing, she likes to create her own imaginary characters and write about them. With her second book, ”The great adventures of Ally and Albert-Part 1” is her second book, she emerged as the youngest author in Chennai. This book is a series book, just like her favorite Enid Blyton series and was published in March 2018 at the Odyssey book store, Chennai.
Vaimitra is also into theatre plays for the past five years with Crea-Shakthi school of drama (affiliated to Trinity College of London) and is the youngest to achieve Grade 6,when she was nine years old. She has also written the script and directed a mime – “Chennai Central-Dos & Don’ts” for her school project, where she trained her 20+ class friends to perform the same. In the subsequent year she wrote the script and directed a play for her class project. Her recent interest is to shoot a mini movie with her friends as main character.
Though her most favorite authors are Roald Dahl and Enid Blyton, Vaimitra hand picks books of her liking and choice and has a mini library containing 200+ books.
Vaimitra’s third book, ”The great adventures of Ally and Albert-Part 2” was launched in July 2019 at the Odyssey book store, Chennai.
She also has her blog page and keeps penning her random thoughts on the same.
Her culinary passion has created many innovative dishes and her future work also includes a cook-book for children. Her other interests are crochet, painting and art.
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