Ayaan is an engineering graduate and an author known for his best selling debut novel- Story in my Mind and anthologies like: Moonlit Matinee-1, Upper Cut, and Fusion. Being single apart from writing, he is an ardent reader, backpacker and a cook.
He can be contacted at:-
Email - ayaan.basu5@gmail.com
Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/authorayaanbasu
Twitter - @ayaanbasu5
To read his story, order your copy of Moonlit Matine-4 here
Here we get to know him closely:
Nainika: Hello Ayaan, many congratulations for Moonlit Matine-4:
Please tell us something more about yourself.
Ayaan: Profile remains the same – Techie, Back-Packer, Cook and a Struggling writer .I will keep you updated if there are any changes J
Nainika: Out of so many books that you were part of, which one is your favorite?
Ayaan: As an author, each book is an individual effort of hard work and creativity so generalizing them will not be fair on my own hard work as all of them are very close to my heart.
Nainika: Among your hobbies, writing, travelling and cooking, which one do you enjoy most?
Ayaan: I travel because I write and I cook because I travel and keep tasting delicacies in and out of India so all three are linked to each other.
Nainika: According to you, what can better express feeling of love, poetry or prose?
Ayaan: Listen to your heart – many a times it gives answers to the question you might have been searching for a long time, may be in form of love or expressing through a story, poetry or a prose.
Nainika: Please throw some light on your story, “Christmas Eve in Park-Street” in Moonlit Matinee.
Ayaan: Christmas is very different in my hometown mainly due to the existence of the huge Anglo community and over the years it has become a festival of Kolkata rather than being limited to one particular community and meeting Radhika accidentally after half a decade suddenly in Park-Street triggered the idea of writing this story keeping the festival as the main theme.
Nainika: Who are the lead characters of the story?
Ayaan: The story mainly has two characters: Rupam – a successful writer settled in Bangalore with roots from Kolkata and Radhika – happily married and once upon a time Rupam’s batch mate and his college sweet heart.
Nainika: Which character is your favorite and why?
Ayaan: Radhika is my favorite character because in real life there was someone similar like her who taught me to value human emotions.
Nainika: How close is your story to the real life?
Ayaan: Pretty close but not entirely – When you start your graduation days with adrenaline rush to explore and challenge the unexplored, stepping into a new world with oceans of opportunities , everything looks like either black or white but this girl Radhika added colors to the energy , eventually through which maturity came into existence which made me a better human being.
Nainika: How was your experience writing romantic story?
Ayaan: Good as always – I mainly love writing romantic stories more in form of serious emotional connection and with good reviews from my readers it gives the motivation to write something even better making the experience till now worth having.
Nainika: Give me one reason to pick this book, as a reader.
Ayaan: Romance cannot be packed in one box and labelled but it should have varieties which the book offers.
Nainika: Would you like to share any experience you had while writing,“Christmas Eve in Park-Street”?
Ayaan: When one of Rupam’s & Radhika’ S mutual friend read the final draft, I was asked – “So did this incident in Park-Street really happened which I am not aware of?”
Nainika: Would you like to give any message for readers?
Ayaan: Read us! - That’s the biggest encouragement we look for to come up with something even better in future in form of stories or poems in multiple genre.
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