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Difficult to answer. But I think they will be – I make decisions with my heart, I am decent cook and I like and appreciate fine arts.
Becoming Unproductive.
Guess, it is yet to come
It’s difficult to pinpoint a single person for I look for qualities in people. A particular person might have some quality that appeals to you but the same person might also possess something that’s not really worth of admiration. All in all, there are many people around me who have qualities that I admire in them and it is difficult to list them.
The guy Vishwas in my book ‘The Withering Banyan’
In my view, a villain can never be a favourite really as he/she is usually hated.I think that in many stories, it is the whole set of circumstances that become the villain and push the protagonists to fight it out.
Ayn Rand, Khaled Hosseini, Amitav Ghosh.
A Thousand Splendid Suns, The God of Small Things, We the Living, The Calcutta Chromosome and The Wild Swans.
Most of the Amar Chitra Katha comics, Asterix, Tintin etc. I would like to reread all of them.
These are some of them I can watch any number of times - Gandhi, Swades, Cheeni Kum, Mayabazaar (Telugu), Sagara Sangamam (Telugu)
To turn back time.
Wish she hadn’t died!
I would have loved to spend my childhood on one of Enid Blyton’s idyllic settings. Adolescence would be in Italy during the time Shakespeare wrote his plays. Adult life would be in any place that is filled with opportunities and growth and promises healthy competition and finally silver years would be in the quietude of ancient India.
Would have loved to play Tennis like a Champion and Bake like a Professional baker.
I would always like to stick to my ideas when it comes to writing and when I read books, I go with the author’s narrative. However, I have been totally struck by Amitav Ghosh’s ‘The Calcutta Chromosome’ as I thought that it was brilliant piece of research and fiction, combined into a thriller.
On my laptop whenever and wherever I find time.
Silence when it’s too loud and music when it’s too silent.
I think it has to be ‘but then’.
No I don’t have any such ritual or superstition.
I enjoy reading non-serious and quirky stuff filled with fun and humour.
Give it a shot if you think you have it in you.
Hyma Goparaju is a management professional based in Hyderabad. She dabbled quite a lot in creative writing while at school and college, which remained dormant for a long time to come until she took the plunge to pen her first novel, ‘The Withering Banyan’. She hopes to write more.
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