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| Rubina Ramesh |
I knew Rubina Ramesh first as a story teller and only
later as a marketeer. Many people know her as the face of THE BOOK CLUB but first and foremost, Rubina can sure weave a tale that pulls the reader in with
the way she builds her characters and sentences, many a time leaving the reader
wondering what had hit them. Today, I bring you Rubina Ramesh, Indie author of Knitted Tales: A Collection of Emotions.
This book is an anthology of short stories that bring you the varied shades of
human thoughts and behaviours. Recently, she’s also published her first romance
novel called Finding the Angel that
would remind one of the Mills & Boons of the 70s & 80s – the best ever.
Yes, I became her fan first and I am glad that today I am a friend too.
My question to the author is this:
There’s young
Jaspreet who’s undergoing tremendous pressure in the exam hall. I found your
description of her feelings so real and amazing. And then there’s the sexy
siren Lolita of many layers. It can’t get more divergent than the two. It’s
amazing that both were born from the same author’s pen. Can you throw some
light on how these came about?
And here's Rubina Ramesh’s answer:
Dear Sundari,
Coming from you I will take that as a HUGE compliment
for pleasing you is never easy. Thank you.
I have a few advantages over life.
1. I am a writer with an overactive imagination.
2. I am a woman writer with an overactive imagination.
3. I am a mother and a woman writer with an overactive
imagination.
Now as you can see with every role my imagination is
stretching a bit more. :D Knitted Tales was written over a period of time. The
days I was happy, a peppy story popped up for the prompt put up in Wrimo India.
Having a teenage daughter, whose mother has a hormonal imbalance, can be a
catalyst to an overdriven imagination. Every examination after you give a pep
talk to your daughter, you are left with an empty gaping hole of self-doubt
about the way you are bringing up your kid in this rat race. We had it easy
compared to our kids. But we cannot show it or they latch on to our weaknesses.
My daughter is a wonderful artist but like every parent we dream of her
becoming a doctor or an engineer. Movies like 3 Idiots scream about the
injustice that we do to our kids. But such messages are appreciated when it
happens to our neighbors or our friend's kid. Out of that feeling, Jaspreet was
born.
Jia Khan's death left a very strong feeling of dread
in me. A young life snuffed out so early and such a senseless death. Lolita,
though not a takeoff from her life, but it’s more about the emotion that I felt when I read the news. What makes a person commit
suicide at the peak of their lives? What did her soul come to learn? Did she
depart once she had learned it? Such questions, as you know dear Sundari,
always fascinate me. Lolita, which I am planning a full-fledged novel on, is my
quest for those answers.
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