Summary:
She started writing blogs in “an attempt to connect with the world.”Her memoir, Raindrops on My Memory Yacht, is born out of stringing together these vignettes. A compilation of 30 select posts, the book is essentially diary notes authored in an informal prose. “The book is a memoir now, but at the time of writing those posts, it was akin to a diary for me. Swathi continues to blog, now in English and her mother tongue, but only to keep a rewarding hobby going. As weeks elapsed, the sense of deracination snowballed and Swathi felt the need to “creatively” channel her struggles and that’s when she decided to put pen to paper to write her “memories, thoughts and experiences”..