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Libra
1. I am obsessed with communicating properly. Before sending my emails, whatsapp messages, I read them twice over to check if they are properly spelt and punctuated and make sense. ‘You’ can never be ‘u’, and ‘come’ can never be ‘cum’!
2. I have poor memory and I dread conversations that go like ‘you remember last year at that restaurant….’
3. I don’t remember the third point.
Fear is a state of mind. You shouldn’t fear anything or anyone otherwise they will always dictate you….…. Oh God, just one second. ….. ‘Yes, honey. No, no not doing anything. Coming right away …’
I believe life has been a potpourri of many sweet and significant achievements. I don’t want to rate one better over the other. Besides, there is a lot more left to achieve.
In my MBA placements, I was shortlisted for only one interview out of the 15 odd companies I had applied to. The interview was slated late in the night and the entire day, I kept seeing my classmates running from one interview to another, eventually getting placed. I had only one chance. The company had only two positions up for grabs and more than 20 candidates. I was hanging on by my fingernails. And then I had cracked it!
As I said, I have poor memory which becomes extremely poor when it comes to remembering low points. So, can we skip to the good part?
Well, that person was living at some point in time. And that’s the only person I wholeheartedly admire – my grandfather.
Hands down – SHERLOCK HOLMES
Gabbar Singh
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Michael Connelly, Nelson Demille, Phillp Kerr and many more
Sherlock Holmes, Bourne Identity, 11/22/1963, I am Pilgrim, The Lion’s game
Have done that already - Sherlock Holmes
Sholay, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, Angoor, Chupke Chupke
To see the outcome of something before I start doing it. Like, I would have loved to know how the book will do before I finished writing it!
Main zindagi ka saath nibhata chala gaya…..
I would like to go 2077 to see my children and grandchildren earning massive royalties because of my books and commemorating me with a life-sized statue on my 100th birth anniversary!
I love music. I have the unique ability to remember all lyrics. But I am a terrible singer. I wish I could start singing well.
Too many to enlist
At home. I keep thinking about the plot while exercising in the morning and then put that down on paper at the first available opportunity.
Music
I can’t put it here. But those who know me even a little will know which one that is.
Yellow legal pad and pencil.
Well, lets just not get there…
Considering I am a new writer, I am not qualified to advice, but I would certainly like to share my experience. For the longest time, I tried writing the novel on the laptop. Because of availability of the ‘backspace’ and ‘delete’ button, I found I was spending too much time perfecting the last line or para. There was no real progress in the story. That’s why I decided to write on a writing pad. With the buttons gone, I stared writing more instinctively and did the improvements later.
Kaushal Patel is a father to two beautiful daughters, best friend to his wife and a decent enough son. He fared poorly in accountancy and maths, studied branding in MBA, and he was a banker for close to 19 years. Now, he has his own start up! Other than that, he has good control over his life. This is his first novel, so he has no writing achievements to gloat over until the next book unless one counts the innumerable action-packed office emails; a subtle form of storytelling. Please beware, for he is determined to write more books. Kaushal grew up and lives in Mumbai with his family and his sense of humour
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