Ink Drop

When I first picked up Ink Drop, I thought I’d just read a few pages before training. Instead, I found myself smiling from start to finish, flipping through story after story, and almost forgetting that I had a workout waiting for me! That’s the beauty of Purvaja’s writing. It pulls you in and makes you feel like you’ve stepped into her secret diary of imagination.

I hope everyone who reads this book enjoys it as much as I did. Read it slowly, read it fast, read it any way you like, but read it with your heart open. There’s light tucked into every corner here, like fairy lights that never go out.

P. V. Sindhu

Badminton Champion and Olympic Trailblazer

Stories have always been a way for me to explore ideas and turn stray thoughts into something more lasting. This collection brings together a range of them, written at different times and with different intentions—sometimes just for fun, sometimes as small experiments in seeing what words could do.

Most of these stories were written when I was in middle school. I’ve resisted the urge to rewrite or polish them, because I wanted to preserve them as they are—snapshots of a younger me figuring out how to tell a story. Now, as I share them in this collection, I hope they read the way I intended: as small windows into worlds that once lived in my head, and now live on these pages.

Thank you for picking up this book and stepping into those worlds with me.

Purvaja Yennamaneni