Ajay K Pandey - Uniqueness Is Something You Should Always Look While Writing (Writer)

 

I started writing in the year 2015 when I lost my wife due to some deadly disease. I wanted to keep the memory alive. My first book is actually my diary where I recalled all my memories in a piece of paper like how I met her, how we travelled the journey of love and how we grown up together. So that is my first book and eventually it made me an author.

1. Tell us about your background and journey.

 I was grown up in the modest NTPC township of Rihand Nagar (Uttar Pradesh, India) with big dreams. I studied engineering in Electronics at IERT(Allahabad) and MBA at IIMM (Pune) before taking up a job in corporate firm.

I grew up with a dream of becoming a teacher but destiny landed me in the IT field. Travelling, Trekking and Reading novels are my hobbies. Travelling to different places has taught me about different cultures, people and it makes me wonder how despite all the differences, there is a bond that unites us all. 

Trekking always inspired me to deal with challenges like a sport. Reading is perhaps what makes me feel alive. Till now I have written 6 books, ‘You are the Best Wife’, ‘Her Last Wish’, ‘You are the Best Friend’, ‘A Girl to Remember’, ‘An Unexpected Gift’ and ‘Everything I Never Told You’.

 
2. When did you start writing and why?

I started writing in the year 2015 when I lost my wife due to some deadly disease. I wanted to keep the memory alive. My first book is actually my diary where I recalled all my memories in a piece of paper like how I met her, how we travelled the journey of love and how we grown up together. So that is my first book and eventually it made me an author.
 
3. How did you become the best-selling author of 5 books?

I have written 6 books and this is the question that should be answered by my readers. So how I became best-selling author, I myself doesn’t know that. I have written those books; I think people like them and there is word of mouth and that they worked in my favor and they have wonderful reviews that’s all.
 
4. Your latest book ‘Everything I Never Told You’ is based upon inter religion love. What can we expect from it?

Actually, this inter religion love story is not a typical Hindu-Muslim kind of love story. Off course the male protagonist is Hindu and female protagonist is Muslim, there is a love element and there is a struggle to get married. But the treatment of these conflicts is totally different. 

I have reframed everything in a new way. So, somebody who is reading this book ‘Everything I Never Told You’ will get a knowledge that why all religions are different and they are different but still there is only one God. 

This book actually unites all the different religious beliefs and anyone who is going to read and finish this book will definitely get a new prospective to see the religious harmony and conflicts.
 

6. Your advice for aspiring authors?

Try to understand, every book that you are going to write, try to ask some questions like in what way this book is different? Why somebody will like to purchase this book? Maybe for you this is an emotion and you wanted to add something in your C.V. or you wanted to fulfill your dream.

But remember people are paying money for it so they want a reason to purchase your book. Is this book giving them a reason? My advice is try to write a unique thing. A lesson is not unique so keep re-writing it. 

If you are not going to find the right answer as why this book is unique and why somebody should by it? Then you are not doing the right thing, maybe it will turn up as an ordinary thing.
 
7. Which is your favorite book and why?

My favorite book is ‘An Unexpected Gift’, this is my 5^th book. It’s story of a transgender person who wanted to become a mother. Since transgender cannot conceive biologically so how she will become a mother, its all related to that story and it has a beautiful climax.

 I myself like this book because of the climax. Also, I am sure who ever going to read this will see the life of transgender in a totally different way.

Ajay K Pandey

Author

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Interviewed by - Aradhana Kumari