Ashes of Yester Years

With a flair for innovative teaching and psychological counselling for teenagers Jyotsna P Katayaprath has been a successful English Language Teacher for more than a decade and a half. Today she is the much loved Higher Secondary School Teacher of the Sree Ramakrishna Mission Higher Secondary School, Calicut. Ever since her post graduation in English language and literature , M.Phil and Masters in Education, she has been an effusive participant in teacher training programmes and creative writing workshops. Ms Jyotsna pursues her research interests in film studies of which many seminars she had been attending bears testimony to. Her poems published in many anthologies, print and e-magazines, her lyrics for a couple of songs and the scripts for a couple of short films are accepted volumes of work that speak her calibre.

As a writer, she has maintained an 'eye for the off-beat 'in her work, "Ashes of yester
years". For her, the world around her has been her laboratory- a storehouse of ideas. Her writings in 'Revelations of an Indian woman' flow seamless connected by one single chord -compassion.

Residing at Devanwita, Nellicode , Calicut, She is the proud mother of a daughter and a son. Translating literature works from Malayalam to English and vice versa, writing script for short films, Adolescent psychology, classical dancing, dramatics, and recitation are her other areas of interests

Ms Jyotsna has kept her passion for writing aflame in the midst of tedious conventional assignments through both the print and e-world ,a ground where she has recorded her observations, reactions and antagonisms to several detesting ,depressing life experiences - learning experiences -that have passed by her .