bondina elangbam was born in imphal, manipur. she grew up inheriting both the meitei and mao cultural heritages from her two parents. her cross cultural bondings are seen to be reflected in her poetic works. since childhood, elangbam has a passion for painting, writing short stories and poems. her first publication of poetry is the "between the poet and her pencil" in mumbai on 19 december 2016. the forwarding of the poetry was done by bollywood actress , who is her childhood school friend.