ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I wish to acknowledge a few people who have been instrumental in inspiring and encouraging me to write this Anthology. I am very grateful to them.
First of all, I wish to acknowledge my husband, Jagdish Singh for motivating me to write this Anthology. His patience, understanding and moral support during the course of getting my writing completed was much appreciated I sincerely thank him for being my pillar of strength.
I wish to offer my sincere thanks to my mentor and good friend, Dr Ram Lakhan Prasad, for writing the prologue and reviewing the work to develop an epilogue. His assistance in arranging the services of an editing team and assembling the items in the order they appear in this Anthology is very much appreciated.
I, gratefully acknowledge my various colleagues for their helpful suggestions and for critiquing my work. All their contribution was indeed most helpful. I offer my sincere thanks to Dr Donna McGrath to head the editing team.
In particular, I wish to acknowledge the contribution made by Sarah Gonsalves, for initially typing my poems and short stories. Thank you, Sarah.
I wish to thank my sister Rani and my brother in Derryl Chan for urging me to complete my Anthology.
I wish to acknowledge my dearest friends, Sarwan and Asha Dey for their support and encouragement to go ahead with my effort to publish my Anthology. This is a dream come true. Thank you everyone.
Padma Singh.