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#Read about Guest #Author Dr. Sweety Shinde

29 Wednesday Jul 2015

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I got an opportunity to grace Chris Graham’s platform for authors. Here it is…

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Perfect quote – It aptly sums up the motive to pen my novel.

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Why write at all?
You cannot inhale and not exhale.
You cannot eat and
not poop.
You cannot read and
not write. (Did I just equate writing with pooping?) Yin & Yang. Reading is a passive, pleasant passion. Writing is challenging, invigorating, and pathologically addictive!

Profession vs Passion: I’m a Pathologist by profession. I dissect dead bodies and diagnose live diseases under the microscope. But human beings hold deeper mysteries beneath the visible surface. Mind, emotions, and idiosyncrasies – those are beyond the scalpel, but not beyond the pen’s might!

I decided to use my profession 2 ways. One, to fund my passion. Two, to stimulate both halves of my brain – the rational and the creative. Yin & Yang again. 

Flexing the muscles of Time: ‘Work expands to fill the time required to complete it.’ As a…

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Love affair with books – then, now & forever

15 Wednesday Oct 2014

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Age 13 and 10 respectively – My brother and I decided to hoard our own library.

Ingenious plan: Papa promised us a new book every summer vacation (… provided we earned it with glowing report cards, obviously.) Only one book apiece! It was a grand beginning. BUT it was woefully inadequate for 2 voracious book-vorous animals. Then we had a brainwave.

If not brand new, Continue reading →

‘Selfie’ moments of renowned authors

20 Friday Dec 2013

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A la Alfred Hitchcock who peeped into a frame every film, there are authors who couldn’t resist giving us a peek-a-boo flash of themselves in their books.

1. Ayn Rand: in Atlas Shrugged.

as Galt takes Dagny around his world, they encounter ‘A young woman stretched out . At the sound of their car,she leaped to her feet in a single swift moment. She had dark, disheveled hair and large,piercing eyes. ayn

‘She is a writer. The kind who believes that when one deals with words,one deals with the mind.’ says Galt. Continue reading →

First Love- ACK, Chandoba, Kishor

08 Sunday Dec 2013

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Wednesday was my private Hell. The dentist visited our colony every Wednesday. I was a perennial victim to his drills . Martyred, bloodied and deeply wounded, I found joy and consolation in the colorful book my Father gently pushed into my hands. And I fell irrevocably in love!

Chandoba (little Moon). A delight filled with short stories, mythology, moral tales Continue reading →

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