Prateek Gupta inherited a love for poetry from his father. He was just 15 when he stumbled upon his old diary, and the journey began. "A year later, I had a major crush on a girl who didn't even know I existed and poetry gave me an outlet. Ghalib, Mir, Faraz and Faiz were my companions to share the melancholy. The more I wrote, the more I had the desire to read," he says. He would devour poems and stories in English, Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi. "Storytelling should be personal, stirring, emotional, and even biased. That's how I write and that's how I like to read."