A CANDID INTERVIEW WITH Siddharth Sehgal

Siddharth Sehgal, an Engineer by profession and a writer by passion has significantly contributed to the literary field.

- Riya Gulati

The techie is an alumnus of the University of Alabama, a columnist for The Times of India, and the founder of the Indian Periodical who has aptly used his creative powers to enchant the readers. After returning to his home country in 2017, Siddharth devoted his time to volunteering for the Ram Krishna Mission Ashram wherein he used his international expertise to teach the underprivileged children in a nifty way that paved for more skillful and practical knowledge. To bring out his creative and social work to the light, we are happy to share excerpts from an extremely intriguing conversation:

What made you inclined towards writing and when did you commence it?

I was studying at UAB in Birmingham, Alabama, it was the summer of 2010 when I came across my University's newspaper The Kaleidoscope. It was run by students, and this was really interesting to me because we in India have a very different understanding of a newspaper. Initially, I had many rejections but I kept trying, writing, bringing clarity and structure to my arguments, and when my first article was published, it was as if the happiest day of my life, I didn't get paid nor did anybody takes notice but the idea of getting published, expressing my views to an audience was a huge motivation for me. | continued sending articles to the Kaleidoscope and eventually, I was hired by the newspaper as a columnist. This journalistic experience during my student days was the start and I haven't looked back ever since.

Which has been your phenomenal work as of now? Is there any genre you wish to explore?