Shashank Kumar

Zealot of the mainstream antithesis, unabashed cynic within reason, erudite esotericist, solipsist in solitude – compulsive colloquialist. Inveterate day dreamer and nocturnal scribbler who clumsily hops from one project to the other and never writes two books in the same sub-genre. Reclusive musician and demonstrative athlete. Stuff my recent existence in a nutshell and this would about sum it up.

Books

Three things people don’t know about you?

As fate may have it, people tend to know a lot more about me than I do myself. Trust me, it’s true and mildly.

What’s your greatest fear?

Ending up like Dennis Rodman, worse yet arguing spirituality with a Scientologist.

What is your greatest achievement?

I watched Fifty Shades of Grey, the movie, in one sitting without topping up the barf bag ready in my hands.

High point of your life?

The four years in college, if you know what I mean.

Low point of your life

The later purge.

Which living person do you most admire?

Hard pressed to mention just one, I’ll mention two: Mom and Dad.

Who is your favorite fictional hero?

Barack Obama with his fiction of peace and the gourmet media catering of his Nobel laureate image.

Who is your favorite fictional villain?

Muammar Gaddafi. Wink Wink.

Who are your favorite authors?

Plato, Ezra Pound, Ayn Rand, Walt Whitman

What are your 5 favorite books of all time?

Ulysses, Plato’s Republic, Atlas Shrugged, Anthem, VALIS

Is there a book you love to reread?

Fire in the minds of Men by James H. Billington

What are your 5 favorite movies of all time?

The Star Wars series, Pi (Not The life of Pi), Good Will Hunting, Rounders, Shichinin no Samurai

One Superpower you wish you had?

The power to see through women’s discreet little wallets in their snazzy handbags and discern if my financial suitability is being judged unfairly.

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

My tombstone must say: You’re Next. - Last line in my biography: And now, you’re free to pop your aspirin.

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?

France, 1789 in the Age of Enlightenment.

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

Seductive Demagoguery.

Which book you wish you had written ?

Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club.

When and where do you write ?

Nocturnally, under the hazy table lamp at my humble study.

Silence or music?

Music, always. And that too, specifically over an ever growing spotify playlist which I call Randomness.

One phrase that you use most often?

“What’s in it for me?”

Do you have a writing ritual / superstition?

None. What a prodigal waste of zeal and fortitude that would be.

What’s your guilty reading pleasure?

Some things are better left to the imagination.

Do you have one sentence of advice for new writers?

I do have a humble advice: Don’t!

After circumventing the sphere of fine arts, in the spirit of altruism, the twenty-five-year-old Shashank has reached a point, where his expressions are withheld only by inadequate mediums. Music gave him the flow; literature gave him a puritanical voice and the spirit of being ethical in a world, exceedingly critical of constancy. His conclusions, although apparently subjective, are the keynotes of his own personality. Hence, defining a character in and out of an abstract is something that motivates him to write. He says that he is in no way a genre-hooked, romantic fiction novelist, rather, a stark enthusiast of human nature. He believes in a vision and his work helps make it visible. For as fast as times are today, he feels we always need new perspectives.



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