Chandana Ramachandran

Chandana Ramachandran has come back to poetry after serving thirty four years as a senior tax administrator.

Books

Sun Sign

Scorpio

Three things people don’t know about you?

I observe nature and people, I love photography, I don't compromise on things that matter.

What’s your greatest fear?

Communal and ethnic hatred and intolerance destroying our world

What is your greatest achievement?

Trust and Love of many people

High point of your life?

The day of my retirement when a lot of my colleagues came out and told me how much they loved, respected and valued me. I was honoured and humbled

Low point of your life

Death of my parents

Which living person do you most admire?

There are many people whom I have come across who have faced the worst life could offer with grace and dignity.

Who is your favorite fictional hero?

Atticus in To Kill a Mocking Bird

Who is your favorite fictional villain?

Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights

Who are your favorite authors?

Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Arthur Miller, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost

What are your 5 favorite books of all time?

Brothers Karamazov, Plague,The Power and the Glory, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Animal Farm

Is there a book you love to reread?

Middle March by George Eliot

What are your 5 favorite movies of all time?

Fiddler on the Roof, No Man's Land, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Charulata (Bangla), Anubhavangal Palichakal (Malayalam)

One Superpower you wish you had?

To save the starving children of Gaza and every where else

Your epitaph would read? /Last line in your biography would be?

She lived truly.

If you had a time machine to take you back to any country and any time period, where would you choose to be for your childhood, adolosent , adult life and silver years?

Nowhere but here and now. There never was any golden age

If you could acquire any talent, what would it be?

Dancing

Which book you wish you had written ?

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

When and where do you write ?

Whenever, wherever, my muse calls

Silence or music?

Either

One phrase that you use most often?

Thank you

Do you have a writing ritual / superstition?

No

What’s your guilty reading pleasure?

Golden Age Crime Fiction

Do you have one sentence of advice for new writers?

Just get on with it !

Chandana Ramachandran loves nature, poetry and art.She strongly objects to caste,communal, regional and ethnic divides and prejudices



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