Anandajit Goswami has coauthored sci-fi book titled ‘Lucy meets Artificial Intelligence’, and authored ‘Lucy and the Train: Tryst with Sustainability’.
His latest release is "Pink Gender: The Story of a Man, a Woman and a Dream".
He is also a social scientist and has got a Masters in International Trade and Economics from JNU with a specialization in Development Economics, Advanced Trade Theories, Labour Economics, Resource Economics, Environmental Economics and Investment Finance. He has a PhD in Energy Economics and Policy from TERI School of Advanced Studies.
Interview with the Author:
When did you first realize that you wanted to be a writer/ a storyteller?
This realisation had no particular date or time. It is an expression of catharsis and everyday and during every single moment, I go through this realisation and process of evolution to be a writer (if only I agree to the term writer). I dont think I am neither a writer or a storyteller but I am just a self reflective mirror who is never writing but doing everything else in the reflection of the mirror.
What inspires you to write?
Everytime I see a reflection of a thought within and around me, I start expressing and experiencing myself in a cathartic way. In the process, often certain things are born. You might call it as a work of a writer or storyteller, however, I just feel it to be a work of reflection.
How did you come up with the idea for your current story?
I have been observing, reflecting, experiencing the multifaceted complexities of gender norms within the shades of truth and false in this society for a long time. I have just expressed my reflections from such observations, reflections and experiences and hence a story was born.
Are there some stories tucked away in some drawer that was written before and never saw the light of the day?
There are many such stories and they are just waiting to see the light of the day with a little bit of luck, hardwork and perseverance.
Tell us about your writing process.
I divide the writing process into small bits. I divide the working time of writing into different time slices over a certain period of time. In that point of time, I visualise, imagine, document, dramatise, create plots, characters, spectre, diction, rhythm and hence the writing starts and then I continue the process till the final expression comes out.
What is your favorite scene in the book? Why?
There are many. It is difficult to say one favourite. However, while I am giving this interview, the scene which is coming on mind is the one where - “Paoli and Shopno are trying to revive the relationship by alluding to a film called - “ Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”. “
Did any of your characters inherit some of your own quirks?
All of them are expositions and projections of my conscious and subconscious quirks.
What is your most interesting writing quirk?
I intentionally wrote Pink Gender by breaking the norm of a linear, text writing, phrasing, punctuation process to break linearity in the process of thinking and narration. The texting is somewhere placed in between diary writing process, screenplay, theatre and narrative fiction writing frames. There is no sense of narrative completion in the story framing. This quirky experimentation was done intentionally by me in spite of knowing that I will face a lot of literary and narrative criticism. I wanted to experiment with a new norm of texting, paraphrasing, phrasing processes when I am trying to question norms of a society in my expressions splashed in frames of a so called - fictional crime thriller. The quirk was intentional in spite of knowing the criticism that it will bring through.
About the Book:
One day a man, a woman and a transgender get a call for police Investigation at the police station regarding an unintended, serendipitous accident. Police investigates the matter and call the three people in the police station. The three - a man, a woman and a transgender wait in the counselling centre without even knowing how their lives are interconnected with an event of watching the film "PINK " in the same theatre on the same day in the same show. Their stories and mysteries unfold in the counselling room of the police station and a connecting link between their stories is established. The mystery is associated with the film they watched and the time during which they watched it. What finally happens ?; - "The three get trapped more or move on with their lives or do they collude to come out of this and create a new move against the police to come out and chart out their own journey by being friends" . This story is all about these magical mysteries of life which are unexplained in their own ways and how they get more revealed when three lives with different sexual and gender orientations criss cross each other in a police investigation in the police counselling room.
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