With the world rights for Shobhaa De’s next novel having just been acquired, the author says writing for her is a drug.
Q. What is the secret sauce for sustaining a long and successful writing career
One of these days I am going to bottle and market my special sauce! There is really no trick’. I am a natural-born storyteller. And a deeply invested social observer. Writing remains my number one stress-buster. I need my fix! It is my guilty secret…my narcotic
Q. What can you reveal about Srilaaji: A diary of a Marwari dowager
Very little! All I can say is that Srilaaji is sitting inside my head… on it, too! And as good as dictating her story to me. I can see her, hear her, sense her, and I love her…she has aaraam se crossed the fiction threshold and become frighteningly real to me
Q. What inspired the book and the protagonist
I was all set to write a completely different book. Non-fiction, at that. All of a sudden, Srilaaji appeared’. I was in the shower and her voice was unmistakable. She scolded me! What nonsense! How can you even think of writing some other book? Write about me! That was it
Q. What kind of a world will it be set in
It is a world I have observed over 45 years. I have been friends with three generations of extremely fascinating Marwari ladies. It is a closed, secretive society on many levels. The Marwari man is far easier to decode. The Marwari woman is something else.
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