Goodreads asked Smita Das Jain:

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

Smita Das Jain I take inspiration from real life. Truth is stranger than fiction, and the more you observe people and things around you, the more stories you will get to narrate. The characters in all my stories are real people in a fictional setting, and that is why they are relatable. To give you an example, the inspiration for ‘Parched’- one of the stories in my book, came from the dried-up Basil plant on my terrace.

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