Ask the Author: Swathi Sasidharan
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Swathi Sasidharan
I would go to a secluded rain forest with food and water but no wifi or phone. There I will live in a hut in a treetop where animals, insects and snakes never even turn their heads at me. I will have a huge library with 1000s of books nearby, from which I can choose whatever I want to read.
Swathi Sasidharan
While she was alone in the room reading, she thought she smelled cigarette smoke. She wandered through the house to find the last bits of the fading shadow of her father-in-law in the kitchen who was dead 10 yrs back.
Swathi Sasidharan
Adultery, The Real Lolita
Swathi Sasidharan
As I am not a big writer yet, i am not so forced to write that I feel writers block. I write when I feel like "i can't live anymore without writing ". Also I write bilingually. So sometimes my thoughts will be i one language , sometimes in another.
Swathi Sasidharan
For me, it is a way of self expression, expression of emotions which I can't do otherwise, and if others can relate to what I write it makes me fulfilled - just pure, simple joy.
Swathi Sasidharan
I don't know if I am in a position to give advice.... But for me it was DREAM...DREAM..DREAM and BELIEVE.. BELIEVE .. BELIEVE
Swathi Sasidharan
I am a mom of two kids. So it is very difficult to get time to write. I love uninterrupted reading which is possible only after kids are asleep. Now I write small columns, incidents that happen in my home when an expat Indian mom tries to raise two irish girls.
Swathi Sasidharan
Inspiration come in different forms. Sometimes it will be partly my own experience, sometimes I mix truth with imagination, sometimes I exaggerate a small incident , sometimes I mix two people's experiences, now a days I started experimenting more ways...
Swathi Sasidharan
It is my experience as a newly married Indian bride, who becomes an expat and my own struggles not to look or feel odd in a completely different Irish culture.
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