thrown into the garbage bin. Noticing few crumbled white papers inside the trash bin, her mother Mini – who is a teacher – was curious and fished out those trashed papers and read the contents in it. Alas! she was shocked and surprised at what she had just seen. It was gems of brilliance, which her mom couldn’t fathom in her wildest of imagination!

Aiswarya S. Menon (Aiswarya Kenath) is the new Chairperson of Kerala State Vidyarthi Malayala Vedi.

Out of the four short stories that were dumped in the trash can, Mini took this and sent it to the Malayalam daily, that was eventually selected and published! Before that, from then on, and from there, Aishwarya never looked back. Right from class V to XII she made the localschool proud, (GAPHSS Elapully) for being a topper in class, topper in School, topper in something else, which we will come to, later.

Ambition

Aishwarya wanted to become an Astronomer to start with. At the same time, she was very passionate about linguistics. Besides her mother tongue, Malayalam, she was equally adept in English, Sanskrit and Hindi as well. Now, her ambition got checkmated by her own overriding passion she had with the language. This brilliant wannabe Scientist, who won the Crystallography State Level Quiz Competition, organised by Kerala State Council For Science, Technology and Environment, Government of Kerala, at Kowdiar PalaceThiruvananthapuram on the sidelines of the International Book Festival held in 2014, as the second prize winner and her joy knew no bound, when the Chief Guest, who was
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