The Beginning

(She was born in Lakhimpur, in a family where parents had a keen sense of art and had put great value on education. This was the environment which shaped her destiny.)

On 15th November, 1959, on a day of Diwali a Girl was born in Lakhimpur Khiri , a small city of Uttar Pradesh. She was not just a girl but she was a Poem, Her father was Shri Vishnu Swarup Pandey, an Executive Officer in The Municipal Services Of Government of Uttar Pradesh . He had a great artistic steak in him and was connoisseur of literature. Her Mother, a home maker Smt Kanti Pandey, was only class 8th pass when she got married but there was hunger for knowledge and education in her and she went on doing her MA in Hindi Literature.

In this environment she took shape from a little girl to a dreaming teenager and then a restless woman who was constantly phrasing, rephrasing lines to give some meaning and rhythm to her own sense of poetry. Her father was in a transferable job so she had a chance to interact different people and sense the fragrant of different places which greatly enriched her thoughts, dreams and aspirations.