Read up, Interview with Murli Melwani,
author of 'Ladders Against the Sky' (Part 2). Here, he tells us what his experiences were, and how they were related to what he wrote, the most fulfilling part of the book was, when his next book would be out, who his favourite authors and which books he is currently, reading and a lot more, Folks...
Could
you tell the readers about your experiences and how they were related to what
you have written?
What I observed, felt, thought, reacted too – whether it was regarding
the people I met or the locales I travelled through or the way of living I
shared during that period - became the warp and woof of the stories.
What
is the most fulfilling part of writing this book?
The book itself.
It is a record of my experiences and how I interpreted them.
Since
we live as much with our memories as we do in the present, the stories will help
me to time-travel and re-live my experiences whenever I’m so inclined.
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| Murli Melwani |
Who
was it that told you that you could become the author that you are today?
One of my
English Literature teachers, Rev Brother Michael D. Curran, when I asked him
why everything I wrote was so prolix, he said as I move from teen age to the
next phase of my life my writing would become muscular.
‘Writing
matures with the person’. I doubted his advice at that time. Time has proved
him right.
When
will your next book be out?
I hope to write
about the experience of Indians who visit their
adult children working in America. They come to the States every year, anywhere
from 1 month to 6 (the maximum time their visa allows them.)
The
problem is that their children and the children’s spouses have full time jobs.
The result is that the parents have their company only for a few hours in the
evening. What they pass the time during the rest of the day will be the subject
of the book. I don’t know when I’ll start working on the book.
Who
are your favourite authors and why?
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| Somerset Maugham |
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| Sir Salman Rushdie |
An odd
assortment: Somerset Maugham, Mulk Raj Anand, H.E.Bates, Padma Hejmadi, Frederick Forsyth, Philip Roth, Anita Desai, and Salman Rushdie.
Why?
Because they entertain - in the best sense of the word.
Which
books are you currently reading?
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| Colson Whitehead |
Three books
concurrently. Crazy? Of course. ‘The Feast Days’ by
Ian MacKenzie (dealing with the experience of
the ‘trailing spouses’ of expatriates), ‘The Ninth Hour’ by Alice McDermott and ‘The Underground Railway’ by Colson Whitehead.
What
else do you do on a daily basis?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Sudarshan Kriya (more or less daily), workout in the gym, read, and
drink - my favourite Assam tea!
You can Read the Review, here First part of the Interview here and Buy the Book right here, as well.
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