*** Special Feature - November 2016 ***
About the Author
Aniesha Brahma is an author who realized her passion for writing at the tender age of six. She also happens to be the social media manager for BEE Books. Her debut novel, The Secret Proposal (2012) was published by General Press and was followed by When Our Worlds Collide (2015) by the same. She blogs at: www.anieshabrahma.com and runs an online magazine, BUZZ Magazine (www.buzzmagazine.in). She can be contacted at: aniesha.brahma@gmail.com. She lives in Kolkata with her family and her five super adorable cats!
The Inspiration for All Signs Lead Back to You
Quite honestly, All Signs Lead Back to You started off
as a joke. I had read a writing prompt which said that your characters have
broken up, and now your characters meet again – what happens now? I started
toying with the idea of this girl called Diya Rai, who would be my polar
opposite because Akriti had been more or less me.
I thought about Diya and I
thought about Ashwin Chowdhury, the boy who falls in love with her and pays the
price for the same. And I thought of the storms they could possibly create and
how Fate can be a really horrible thing at times!
The other idea I was
toying with at the moment was about first loves. No matter how many times we
fall in love, how many people fall in love with us, our first loves are always
special. Little things will always make us remember them. Isn’t it?
By this time, Ashwin and
Diya had taken root firmly in my mind. They refused to leave me alone, even
when I was at work. Telling me their stories in bits and pieces, and I tried my
best to put them together. You must have heard how the stories are in our heads
are not quite how they are when we write them down. Half the things I learned
about these characters, their lives, never even made it to the book! And that’s
a perfectly normal thing.
The story was mostly
rooted in the very haunting question – does
first love ever deserve a second chance? Because quite honestly, you will
never find a love quite like your first.
I’ve been asked before if
these characters were based on people I know. The answer to which is: yes and
no. We are writers who are inspired by people and events. Sometimes two people
can mesh together and form a whole new third in our lives.
Diya, as I have said
before, is just my opposite. While writing, I would imagine being in her shoes
and make her do things I’d never do! Ashwin, is based on someone that I used to
know, and he is also fleshed out according to how I’d deemed fit. Nina, is the
utopian best friend we all dream of having and some of us are lucky enough to
even have. As for Rishabh and Trina, their only purpose had been to be
obstacles in Ashwin and Diya’s path.
I honestly had a lot of
fun writing this book. And I had even more fun while Sam di did the editing,
followed by Sugandha doing the proofreading. And Esha and I myself reading the
last drafts! This whole experience had been surreal to say the least. And yes,
I will be back again with a new book because come on. I’ll never get tired of
telling stories to this world. Because I’m always inspired. Always looking for
stories.
All Signs Lead Back to You by Aniesha Brahma
2013.
As the final bell for the day rang on their last day in school, Diya Rai, had a chill run down her spine. The chill of not knowing what the future holds for her and her high school sweetheart, Ashwin Chowdhury.
So she does a preemptive strike.
She dumps him before he can hurt her.
2015.
Two years later, Ashwin and Diya, cross paths. Each holds grudges, feelings and only one half of the story that completes them.
Told from alternating points of view, through a non-linear timeline, this is the story about
first love, second chances and ALL the SIGNS THAT LEAD BACK TO YOU.
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