Goodreads asked Sonali Dev:

How do you get inspired to write?

Sonali Dev I grew up in Mumbai, which is nothing if not a hot bed of stories waiting around every corner. I mean, textures, sounds, smells, emotion, it actually thrums through the air there. And then there’s my family. A grandmother who was a doctor back when the British still ruled India and a majority of women were still illiterate, a father who spent months in a Pakistani prisoner-of-war camp, a great grandmother who was a poet and died of a broken heart, a grandmother who tucked me into her side every afternoon and waxed eloquent about ‘that Mr. Rochester’ –it was a childhood seeped in stories with many great storytellers who loved to color it all in with opinion and interpretation.
And all this was before I moved across the world and found myself surrounded by an array of characters so drastically different and yet so fundamentally similar. The short answer? The world around me is what inspires me to write.

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