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Porcupines in My Pants and Other Craziness

Anupama Ramanujam

Life's going to be easy...said no one ever.

Especially for a PlayStation-loving twelve-year-old in a futuristic city.

Being twelve matters. Because that's when I am packed off by the Council on a hardcore, muscle-numbing strugglethon across the five Thinais – the treacherous hills, fatiguing fields, muddy mangroves, dry desert lands and dense forests – to come out shining…or whining. The latter is more my style.

It's me against Nature. Me versus wild animals. Me against who-knows-what-lurks. Me versus Me. Get the picture?

How this will help me grow up and glow up all in one go, I don't know. But I'm about to find out.

So are you!

Anupama Ramanujam

In addition to being an author, Anupama Ramanujam is a blogger and a content developer who loves to explore and write about the â€˜nature of things' in her stories, essays and poetry. She believes in the intrinsic connection between humans and Mother Nature and is of the opinion that it would be very useful to develop intelligent automatons to foster this relationship.

Anupama is a postgraduate in communications and is proud to be associated with two start-ups that are focused on nurturing preteens and teens through growth-mindset programmes. She is also the self-published author of four visionary novels and an avid blogger with several blog posts to her credit. When she is not researching or writing, Anupama, who lives in Chennai with her family, plays bumbling house boss and exasperated mother to a teenager.