Unlike a fiction writer, a journalist does not choose her subjects/characters; she is the lieutenant sent on the operation and does her best within the circumstances. There is a possibility however that doing the same kind of interviews makes her an expert on the subject. This happened to me.
I wrote exclusively and extensively on cinema and therefore my debut book and others that followed focused on cinema, a trilogy on Amitabh Bachchan, the authorized biography of Hema Malini, essays on the magic of movies and chronicling the history of cinema.
Only two out of the 15 books I have authored between the years1999 to 2019 only two are fiction and feature Lord Krishna. More about that tomorrow….
To be continued
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