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MAITREYI KARANTH
Comedienne, Poet, Actress, Philanthropist, and Yummy Mummy
Maitreyi Karanth is an actress, stand-up comedian, and philanthropist. Closing down her mathematics tutoring business at the age of 40 she embarked on acting, comedy, and philanthropy. Karanth is the only woman in Hong Kong to perform in a one woman comedy show and has sold out every show since. Her TEDx talk Age is not just a number, It's a journey has garnered more than 200,000 views. In 2019, she founded a charity named after her father, KOMA KARANTH FOUNDATION, Having the primary goal to create loving and caring communities, the foundation worked tirelessly throughout the covid pandemic to provide food, free homes and education in Philippines. (read more)
Poetry by Maitreyi
People are not as happy as they look
Messages are not as angry as they sound
Your scar has not been noticed at all
Your confidence is hiding in lost and found
Walking away is not as hard as it feels
Much needed to keep your heart fine
Speaking up is not as rare as it used to be
Tell yourself this life is only mine
Positivity is not always the answer
Demons often brushed under the carpet
Negativity is not the only alternative
There are plenty of other tools in life's market
Life is not a black and white wall
It's a canvas often blank and willing
Even the colors that stick fade with time
But most answers are hidden in the spilling
Fears are often what drive you within
Anger might scale you to new heights
Good and bad can dance in tandem
Angels don't always win the fights
...Maitreyi karanth
Poetry by Maitreyi
You see people seated on golden thrones
Smiling and waving with a joy never outgrown
The tears of their past carefully hidden under
The scars may show but wounds are unknown
All the people they had to leave behind
Those that did not trust in their path
All the times they were desperate to find
Their truth in the bloodbath
Feeling lonely in a crowd
And still in the quiet very alone
Not making sense of the existence
And still chasing after dreams unknown
Its not as if they do not understand
Its how they are made inside
Maybe a searching soul with home unfound
Passing through lives, nowhere to hide
Life is an accumulation of past souls
Who knows what they went through
Whose clutches they escaped
To then create this grand prison anew
—Maitreyi Karanth
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