Goodreads asked Shukla Lal:

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

Shukla Lal The idea for my most recent book ,Floating Logs , placed in Calcutta, came from the speed at which time is flying . In the year 2017 of my 80th birthday , I began to reflect on the fact that the 21st century was already nearing the end of its 2nd decade . I realised that there is a perceptible change happening between the ethos of the 50 decades of ‘ Post-Partition nationally integrated India ‘ that I could remember and the recent decades .
So I was inspired to catch those times and styles of the 20th century in which I grew up by writing historical fictional romances in simple readable English .

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