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Originally posted by: LuvKrithika

lovely answers. 😛

Originally posted by: LuvKrithika

Which one U like most

MB or SK

When I heard the buzz about KTLK being an adaptation of DK, I was curious. But I had my reservation about what Indian TV will do to any story. But when I saw that they had taken MB as Ashutosh and the writer of the story was Kamlesh Pandey of RDB fame, I thought they were serious about making a good serial. If they had taken SK to begin with, I wouldn't have been too hopeful. But that hope was trashed pretty early on. I figured MB or KP weren't any guarantee of the show being ground breaking. I had actually left watching the show even before MB quit, because the story seemed to be going nowhere pleasant. So, now MB or SK - doesn't matter. 😊

Nidhi or Geet

I had expected to identify more with Nidhi, she being an urban, educated, working woman. But alas! She poured cold water on my dreams by sitting at home at the flimsiest excuse. 😆 Geet had also done so after marriage. They both are my heart-breakers. 😃

Geet or KTLK

Geet sustained its "difference" for much longer than KTLK. Although post-marriage that had disappointed me as well.

tea or Coffee

Coffee all the way! 😊

Yellor or Red

Yellow - in a softer shade. 😃

Maldives or England

England. Cold is better than humid. 😛

Coke 0r Sprite

Sprite, if only these two are there. Though, in general I am a juice person and not a carbonated drinks person.

Rohan or SK

Rohan

PC or Phone

PC. I am phonophobic! 😃 Chat with me all you want. Don't call me please. 😃

1. Tell us something about "Moving On"
2. What motivated you to write.
3. What lead the story to take a form of a book?
4. What inspired you to explore this subject? Is there a personal implication?
5. Tell us about the characters.
   
6. Do you think the readers can identify with the characters? Do you think that people like Smiriti & Rohan exist?
7. What is your take on social issues like female education?
8. What is the social message you think you wanted to put across? Do you think you have succeeded?

- Kads & Shari (oaz30)

Originally posted by: Kkadss

Guess everyone's been asking about you!!
Lets get some news about your book too!!!

1. Tell us something about "Moving On"
   
   Moving on is my first novel. To the TV viewers, the concept will be familiar. Two people meet, fight and then fall in love. I also liked the concept very much. But wanted to write something that is more relatable, more logical than what TV shows show. And it explores the various issues modern, urban life in India. Career vs. Family. Abusive relationships. Gender discrimination. Lack of respect for individuality etc.
   
   
2. What motivated you to write.
   
   I have been writing since I have learned to write. Probably because I was really shy and introvert as a child. I could not talk to people easily, not even to my friends. So, I needed an outlet for the stuff in my mind. For a long time since childhood, I mostly wrote poetry in Hindi. Most of prose writings were confined to first my diary and later my blog. The blog is now almost nine years old. But after certain stage in life, I figured I was unable to express myself through poetry. My views on life had not remained so romantic. They had become realistic, coarse. Blog posts and articles could sometimes express them. But I wasn't as comfortable there as I could be with poetry. Probably because poetry or fiction provides you a mask and you can say a lot of stuff fearlessly in the name of your characters, instead of yourself. I felt the urge to write fiction to express myself. But fiction writing did not come naturally to me. I had to work hard on it. I started by writing a few short stories on my blog. I was hoping to graduate to longer writings in time, when help came from unexpected quarters. My Maneet Mania and realization that I could write fan fictions and express myself through them. Fan Fictions are relatively easier to write, because characters and an alternative fictional world is carved out for you. So, you can just focus on the story, events, dialogues. So, it was a good practice ground. I wrote them seriously. I checked my grammar and word usage and expressions. They gave me a lot of practice and encouragement.
   And after that Moving On happened. First as a long story of 20k words that I posted on my blog. Then through multiple writes and rewrites and changes, it took the shape of a 54k words novel. What came out was an effort of over one year.
   
   
3. What lead the story to take a form of a book?
   
   Probably the fact that I run a business around publishing books 😃
   
   
4. What inspired you to explore this subject? Is there a personal implication?
   
   Love story in the book is... well... just a love story. Its a fairy tale romance. Sweet and soothing, which is what I wanted it to be. But the other aspects, the characters, their lives and problems have all been inspired from real life. Not my own. 😃 My father, for example, is the gentlest soul you can come across, not at all like Smriti's father in the book. But there are all kinds of people in the world, all kinds of horrible and nice things happen to them. A lot of characters and events have been picked up from what I have seen around me. It is no one person's story though. So many bad and good things do not happen to the same people in real life, most of the time. 😆
   
   I do have very strong opinions and stand on issues of domestic abuse, abusive relationships and gender discrimination. So, those issues peep in quite naturally in the things I write.
   
   
5. Tell us about the characters.
   
   A hardly educated woman living in small town looks after her family and kids like an average Indian housewife does. She is treated like an unpaid servant by her husband, but is content with her life. She has only one dream. That her daughter should not rot in the same environment. She wants her to have financial independence. She is almost fanatic about it and will go to the extent of fighting with her family and husband or alienating her sons for that. Why? What's her motivation?
   
   A lad runs away from home at the age of 18. He didn't have bad company, he didn't have bad habits, when he was at home. Why does he run away not knowing what to do? Loiters around and wastes himself for a couple of years before getting his act together and later in his life is married to cause of girl children. Why? Whats his motivation?
   
   These are not our protagonists. But over a long period of time, they have shaped how the lives of the protagonists progresses. Read to find out more. 😃
   
   
6. Do you think the readers can identify with the characters? Do you think that people like Smiriti & Rohan exist?
   
   Yes. I do think people like them exist. There are people who are caring and selfless to a fault. There are people who can smile despite carrying a lot of pain. There are people who are good at heart, but have failed to express themselves and lost friends and relationships that way. There are people who can not balance their career ambitions and the emotional and psychological needs of the lives and regret it later.
   
   And there are people who move on, who find happiness even after taking serious blows initially in life. 😊
   
   
7. What is your take on social issues like female education?
   
   Another book? 😃 But just one line. The day we would not have to talk about education and female education separately, the issue would have resolved itself. The day equality comes in the society, we would not need to talk about it!
   
   
8. What is the social message you think you wanted to put across? Do you think you have succeeded?
   
   Giving our social message might be too presumptuous a goal for a starter like me. 😊 So, I don't know if there is a clear cut message out there. But there are issues that have been raised and the story talks of how the characters face them. May be there is a food for thought. And if it makes some people think and act in their small ways, I think I would be successful. Too early to judge that! 😊

- Kads & Shari (oaz30)

Do u want change your Profile Picture. If Yes, New picture will be who?

Originally posted by: LuvKrithika

Do u want change your Profile Picture. If Yes, New picture will be who?

Originally posted by: sharmishtha02

Et tu Kads? 😆 Elaborate sawaal. Ek ek kar ke answer karna padega. 😃

Thanks a lot for the questions Kads and Sharifa. 🤗 Made me rethink a lot of stuff that I hadn't consciously thought over in quite sometime. 😊

Originally posted by: Kkadss

Woa!!!!! Elaborate swaal ke elaborate jawab :P

Thanks for the replies dear! Just one more question

How much brainstorming you had to do to answer them :) Lols :P