Sujoy Ghosh

What are your early inspirations which motivated you to write?

Rakesh Kumar Srivastava “Rahi”: Since the very beginning of my life let’s say from my school days, I had a great affection for the language and the literature that those artists used to convey the ideas, the story, the emotions, experiences were a delight to read. The one thing that always excited me was that we can write essays we can narrate stories but how long can we go, like five pages? ten? How these people manage to go to such lengths and still it doesn’t seem even for a little bit that they are stretching it, thus producing such beautiful work.

All this stayed in the background as I had a career to make, family to look after, but then the time came when all this childhood dream you can say or the itch to produce one of such an art, to put into reality, and then I started with a pen and paper.

What is your writing process? What was the journey to identify your process like?

Rakesh Kumar Srivastava “Rahi”: I love this art and I have read various artworks of various famous and non-famous writers, all of them with their unique styles. I started to find one, I wrote and wrote and kept cancelling as I was not finding it. Well it seems like age and creativity has direct link or maybe there was some other reason. But then one day I started by writing a trip’s blog, which turned out to be great and was published in the railway’s yearly book and was appreciated very much. Then I realized this might work, writing in close relation to my own life goings can work wonders and from then on I started knitting my creations close to my own life and turns out it somehow started working and I liked it. For me the work of the artist should first of all be pleasing to his own eyes and I cleared that checkmark.

How do your personal experiences influence your writing?

Rakesh Kumar Srivastava “Rahi”: Well as I told earlier I based my writing learning from my personal experiences. So it is safe to say that the personal experiences influence my writing to a very great extent if not fully. I draw motivation from my friends, family, near and dear ones but also I will agree that with the time that I have dedicated to writing properly, I find that one develops additional traits as well, the imaginational sphere widens, word play knowledge increases thus adding to your skill which happened to me as well.

Tell us about your books?

Rakesh Kumar Srivastava “Rahi”: My four E-books (Dhai Kadam, Ek Nadi Char Kinare, Meri Priye Terah Laghu Kathayen and Atript) were published on Kindle, out of which one Dhai Kadam was published in physical form.

Tell us about your next project?

Rakesh Kumar Srivastava “Rahi”: Nowadays, I work on a family fiction story. It is about a journey of a person and his experiences before independence and later.