Debutant Author, Kishore Nanda’s book ‘Because It’s Love’ talks about different forms of love around us. The book has different stories revolving around Life, Love and Relationship. It makes us believe that life has meaning under all circumstances, even the most miserable ones.
Nanda’s personal experiences with orphan kids, AIDs victims, cancer patients and abandoned old parents inspired him to write stories about people and life.
Every story of the book ‘Because It’s Love’ is wonderful, heart touching and emotive. Each story speaks about the love that arises from different situations.
Through his book, Nanda helps you to look at life from a different perspective and appreciate it. How some situations in life connect one person from the other and then give meaning to life.
Nanda is a writer who learns and get inspires only and only from his observation and experiences of life. He has done a good job of writing stories using all elements - there is hatred, stigma, distress, emotion, love, compassion, and connection in ample amounts. The characters are well-etched and language is simple and lucid.
Typically, if a book has one passage, one idea with the power to change a person’s life, that alone justifies reading it, this book has several such passages. Well, you will have to pick up the book to admire the life and every accidental circumstance that helps you to understand the meaning of life. Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure or quest for power, but a quest for meaning. Excerpts from the interview:
BV: What motivates you to write "Because its love"?
Kishore Nanda: Prior, writing the novel, I have decided to do the documentaries on the Aids victims, old aged people in old age homes, cancer patients and stray dogs. Their stories have inspired me to write the book. Every character in my book was an inspiration from my documentaries.
BV: Why you have chosen this title?
Kishore Nanda: I believe love is the most powerful feeling in this world. It has the power to change or transform anyone around us. The title has relevance for the entire plot of the book. Love plays a major role in four stories of my book.
BV: How is life after you quitting your job and becoming a full-time author?
Kishore Nanda: Financially I have faced many struggles after quitting my job. Even I knew that it is very hard to survive for being an author. Due to less royalty. Until and unless you are a best seller, you cannot survive to be an author. However, my intention is not for earning money, it is for a change in this world. I have met many people and had a deep conversation with them while making documentaries. I do not expect the financial result from my book, but I would be very happy if someone has changed after reading my book.
BV: Would you please describe how you have been supporting the different causes?
Kishore Nanda: When I had visited children’s Aids home, I was broken and shocked after watching young children who were living like orphans with the deadly disease. I saw them how they were living in the moment and I was sure that they were not aware of their death. I spent my birthday with them playing with as many as I could. At the end of the day, I distributed chocolates to every child, their happiness was priceless. I have distributed bedsheets and sarees for old aged women who were living on the streets. When I was documenting on stray dogs. I have helped many injured puppies by taking them to the vet and then handing them to the animal adoption Centre. I don’t like to share the things which I have done but I am saying these things to everyone because everyone has to take inspiration from me and start helping the needy one.
BV: Do you follow any specific writing style? If yes, would you please highlight on your writing style?
Kishore Nanda: In the past three years, I have learned many things, like story and character development and the feelings and expressions of characters. My stories are big, I am sure other authors would take more than six hundred pages to write and I feel that would be testing for a reader patience levels. Therefore, I have written in a fast phase manner, and I am sure no reader would feel bored despite having pages of four hundred.
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BV: Any challenges while writing this book? How do you overcome it?
Kishore Nanda: I am an emotional person and being among the dying patients was very hard for me. Few of the cancer patients whom I was interviewing have died in the middle of my journey. I was unable to complete the book and halted my writing for a few months. However, later my family and friends supported me and encouraged me to complete the book.
BV: What is your next book all about?
Kishore Nanda: My next book would be on music and I am planning to start research on shortly.
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