Write India’s Delhi finale turned out to be full of surprises for its fans, firstly because it featured none other than the elusive octogenarian writer Ruskin Bond and secondly, because it saw three of India’s best-selling authors, Ashwin Sanghi, Ravi Subramanian and Ravinder Singh open up to Write India Director- Vinita Dawra Nangia on the challenges faced by writers in India and tricks they’ve used to come this far in the writing fraternity.
The erstwhile Mr Bond unveiled the Write India Season 1 book with a hope of reading more such interesting stories in the second season, of which he’s looking forward to be a part of.
Write India Delhi finale stirs up a surprise for fans!
Meanwhile, hailing Write India, as a movement that encouraged common people to pick up the pen and let their emotions flow as words, author Ravi Subramanian surprised a lot of his readers by confessing that India indeed is not a country where short story writers are encouraged the way they should be.
“The effort and thought process involved in writing short stories is a lot and most of the authors like to associate themselves with long novels. In fact, short stories are also commercially not so successful because publishers in the fraternity just don’t support short stories,” exclaimed Ravi.
Ashwin Sanghi and Ravinder Singh echoed a similar sentiment when they said short story writing was an art as longer stories are easier to write and get published.
The second part of the session saw the writers reminisce the most memorable moments associated with the Write India journey.
As per Ashwin, his biggest challenge was to select the best entry from the top 6-7 stories. The creativity, which emerged was phenomenal.
Ravinder said coming together with other authors in such a huge way for an enriching platform like Write India was his most memorable moment.
As far as Ravi was concerned, his moment of surprise came when he learnt that a 14-year-old wrote on the prompt he gave on infidelity and made it to the top three.
The trio concluded by giving tips to aspiring writers, with Ashwin emphasising on the fact that persistence was the key in becoming a successful writer and the goal could only be achieved if writers stopped worrying what other people would say about their writing.
According to Ravi, the mantra of success for a writer is to have the power of observation. “There’s no right or wrong in the process of writing. Do exactly what suits you.”
Ravinder bet his money on the importance of storytelling over story.
Write India Director – Vinita Dawra Nangia dropped the mike on the enriching session by saying that if the story walked with her, she knew it would make a mark.
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