Splitting the contents on my blog

Well, fortunately I was able to write another book. I have finished it and soon it will be available for you. To know more about it visit,
http://wethebachelors.blogspot.com

To know more about my debut fiction novel 'Multi-threaded Love', visit,
http://multithreadedlove.blogspot.com

How I became an author ?

This is the most obvious question all my friends have in their mind when they came to know about my book and all. Actually it was never planned. I became author by accident, you can say. People ask me what inspired you. There was no single inspiration; a group of things enforced me to write a book. First one is the idea of ‘utilizing the free time into something productive’. Secondly the unique concept in my mind that, ‘a dozen full of girls can go crazy behind a single boy for his good qualities’. Thirdly, after spending 25 years of my life on earth, I wanted to see if determined, what heights I personally can I scale up. Fourthly the ‘feedback which I usually get (from even my rivals) that, my English is quite good’. Still people insist that there must be something which triggered me to write a novel containing 30,000 words. Yes there is something behind it, a hidden force which asks me to come up with ideas. Like other small town guys, I too had a dream to enter Bollywood, but as a film director. In his first visit to Pune, any normal guy will prefer to hang around F.C. road, M.I.T. or Koregaon Park. The first thing which I did on the first day of my visit to Pune was, visiting F.T.I.I. Thought the security guard restricted me to enter inside, I was able to get in touch with the students and the staff. But with a traditional family background, the wish of getting into this unconventional profession remained a dream for me. Later I studied engineering and took up the profession of an ‘IT professional’. But the director within me didn’t die. He had a number of stories to tell. So I decided to let him come out in the form of an author. But the last thing that actually gave me break as an author was, ‘luck’. Sometimes it works!

Proud to join 'Authors from IT-IIT-IIM' club

"How the hell an Engineer can write an English novel?", is the question which I usually notice over the faces of people with whom I get introduced. These people mostly are either students of journalism or arts. Over this I have a cross question, "Don't Engineers have a freedom to express?" Yes they have, after all we are human beings too. Though our profession deals mainly with science or research or business, we too have feelings, thoughts and dreams. All
these things hardly get any chance to come out into public, as far as the scope of our profession is concerned. The case with IT people is the worst. We are screwed up with deadlines. Hence a person like me will fully utilize the free time which he gets on the weekends to enjoy the life. It may also involve writing. Again Engineers are creative by nature and as they rightly say it, 'Creativity has no challenge'!

Here are the names of a few English authors in India, with an IT/IIT/IIM background. Mine is the longest. Ha ha!

Amitabha Bagchi (IIT)
Chetan Bhagat (IIT and IIM)
Karan Bajaj (IIM)
Mainak Dhar (IIM)
Rakesh Mishra (IT professional)
Ravi Subramanian (IIM)
Sandipan Deb (IIT)
Satyajit Deshmukh (IT professional)
Tushar Raheja (IIT)
Vivek Agarwal (IIT)