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About the Book:Children are a powerhouse of talent. It is extremely necessary to tap their potential and give them an opportunity to showcase their talents. As a Beginning for Beginners is one such earnestly taken step in this direction.Twenty one young authors in the age group of 11 to 21 joined this venture from a nationwide contest and their stories have been presented on the canvas of this book. Each story is different and unique and is representative of the astonishingly fertile mind of the light of future India -- right from action to romance, sci-fi to human relations and personal experiences to anecdotes, this anthology covers the various aspects of life which a reader is bound to enjoy and cherish, and wonder if this is the brain of India-in-the-Making!About the Author: Neelam Saxena Chandra is a bureaucrat working with Indian Railways. Writing poetry and fiction is her passion. More than six hundred of her stories/poems have been published in various leading Indian as well as international magazines/journals/anthologies. Seventeen of her books have been published including two novels, one novella, two short story collection, seven poetry collections and four collections of children's stories. Neelam is a record holder in the India Book of Records for being the author with highest number of publications in a year. Neelam and her daughter hold record for being the first mother-daughter duo to write a poetry book for the book 'Winter Shall Fade' in Miracle World Records and India Book of records. She has won several awards including an award in a poetry contest by American Embassy, Premchand award by Ministry of Railways, Rabindranath Tagore international poetry award, Freedom award by Radio city for her lyrics. Neelam has been nominated in the list of 100 most well known authors in India by Forbes for the year2014 http://forbesindia.com/printcontent/39097Neelam can be contacted at https://www.facebook.com/NeelamSaxenaChandraWeb page: http://neelamsaxenachandra.in/