ORANGE CITY LITERATURE FESTIVAL

Minnie Vaid - Women are contributing in every field. Contribution of Indian women scientist in Space exploration is momentous. I thought why not bring their contribution in limelight by writing the book, so did I write. To write precise experiences I had to visit them. Marriages, children and house hold chores that the women, this stereotype have been shattered by these ISRO women. They are intelligent and confident. They do have their personal life managing well with their projects. They work hard on their project because they know there is no easy second chance and that too on meagre budget. They are true examples of unconventional women in conventional world.

Susmita Mukherjee - Born in a bangali family, I was married to Jagirdar family. I was playing a dual role, one a modern woman acting in films and serials and second was a classical Indian women with ghungat and other traditional ways. It didn’t bother me as I respected who I was. May taunted about my traditional attire but I know I was right. My husband did supported me so I was confident about myself and what I have to do.

Nandita Om Puri - I lost my father in my childhood so my mother was taken care of me single handedly. My mother worked, cooked and did all house chores while raising me. We see boys are shown ambition of being doctor, engineer, lawyer girls wasn’t that privileged, fortunately they are now, but with lesser extent. Nurse teacher was their primary choices. I decided to make my career in writing my mother unhesitatingly supported me. My husband too didn’t bother about me for not being a good cook. Rather he too supported me.

Every child wants to rebel against what their father did. So I choose a different path. I belong to the marketing field and it is different than sales. Marketing primarily advertises and take the product to people where sales help in selling the book. I become a writer unintentionally as I was a class running guy. Starting with satirical writing I got recognition and started my blog. I stood for an election in Rajasthan University after some political issues which I found irritating. I wrote the street play to increase awareness on woman protection. Due to my caste, I failed in the election. These days everyone seems to be writer and audiences are less. I got the idea of my book “Janta Store” after a series of events I witnessed at my university. While writing we should hold the subject and make it interesting. Above all Word of Mouth is the best way to spread knowledge about your book no other way is as good as it is. If you have good ideas put it on the paper and present it to the prospective publishers, in the form of the proposal which constitutes the crux of your books. A book could have various subjects mixed just its writers mind how intelligently he segregate and make it worthy of reading.

 (It is about our culture) Pawan Sinha In conversation with Manoj Singh

Prabhat Kumar - Since the beginning of the book todate it had a great deal ofdifference. Reading habit of peopleseems to be reducing. Industry losingthe audiences because the interest ofpeople is speedily changing. Peopleare not reserving time for reading. It’stime children must develop the habitof reading since childhood as readingis learning and it’s a lifelong process.Hindi Publishing is in more trouble ascompared to Marathi or Bangla whichhas a cluster of big authors. We allmust respect the author and books.Authors are writing to be selfish andnot for people that’s why it may bethe reason for the slowness inindustry.

Naveen Chaudhary - There is various type of publication like fiction, non-fiction, curriculum, etc. in those most profitable is an academic publication where they receive decent money as a royalty. But some are not that lucky. The irony is academic writer get money but not the fame which other writers receive. So it’s either name or money. Some extra lucky may get both. People do buy quality content which is researched based. Undoubtedly marketing is important on both publisher and writer's side in the current scenario and for that social media are the best mediums. 55% of book purchasers are coming from social media these days. Content is a king and has a power to gravitate reader. We are not competing with another publication but new mediums of Netflix and other streaming sites which are consuming peoples too much time.

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