Goodreads asked Suraj Laxminarayanan:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Suraj Laxminarayanan Thank you for the question.
It was in 2011 during a lonely trip from Bangalore to Chennai that this idea suddenly popped up in my mind. I was travelling to my grandmother’s house for the festival of Pongal, a trip that we make every year without fail where all relatives come together to celebrate the three day festival.
I took the bus to Chennai on a working day and the vehicle was only half full. The seats around me were vacant and the TV inside the bus wasn’t working. It was a largely silent ride where I also had no music to listen to on my phone. The idea suddenly popped into my head and I loved it. I spent the whole six hours of the trip thinking about it. From there on, I worked on that idea for the next six years.
I have been interested in self-help books and the psychology of crime. Crime movies and mysteries always appealed to me. The unexpected twists and turns in the books I read and the movies I watched fascinated me. Hence, I was sure that I would write crime related subjects. Accordingly, I made an outline for the book in that journey.

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