CANDID Conversation with Author - Palak Chauhan

AUTHOR'S PROFILE

Palak Chauhan is an undergraduate pursuing her career in journalism and mass communication from Amity University Mumbai. She is a wonderful  writer and she has co-authored in various anthologies .She also has keen interest in social work and has Participated in several campaigns. Let's know more about her.

Q1) As a kid, which incident inspired you to start writing ?

Ans - Life is filled with different incidents, but one of the most beautiful incident happened with me in my second grade in my English grammar class where our teacher told us to write a small poem regarding our favourite object or anything which was near and dear to us.

Q2) You have co authored in several books .Which is your favourite genre of writing ?

Ans- Yes, I have co authored in various anthologies but there's no specific genre which I love writing because writing flows through your ideas.

Q3) Reading books have taken a back seat in the lives of a lot of teenagers .Share with us why do you thinking reading books is important?

Ans- Reading books is really important because it improves your vocabulary and you as an author get an idea what would be the next plot for your story.

Q4) Do you plan to author a solo book ever ? What would be the genre you would like to write in .

Ans- Yes, my dream is to author a solo book and my genre would be based on psychology, murder thriller, mystery thriller and imaginative stories collection.

Q5) You have participated in several campaigns like women empowerment, tribal empowerment .Tell us the "need of youth to participate in such campaigns".

Ans- Specifically, speaking I love participating in such campaigns and it's not my need but a vision to create a special place for women who don't get enough recognition for their outstanding work and when I participate in such campaigns I feel over whelmed that I am able to contribute and change the society in a better way.

Q6) Reading a book requires patience and creativity . Reading is an almost indirect communication and the readers have to picturize scenarios in their mind while reading the book .Do you feel that the reading habits have reduced due to lack of patience ?

                               

                                          

Ans- Due to the rising technological updates in the world, we need everything to happen fast and easy so, as a reader absolutely we need patience no one wants to read a physical copy and complete it then and there only. But it is getting difficult to accept the dying demand for books.

Q7) What is your one advice that you would want to give to the youth ,who always wanted to start writing but has the fear of failures or is underconfident?

Ans- First of all, don't be underconfident always try to put forth your best ideas in front of the audience or create a forum for yourself where everyone can listen to your ideas clearly and carefully you can either do it in the way of reels, instagram pages, website creation and there are several techniques available for your content to get a best audience base.