Books
Capricorn
I am scared of clowns; I don’t like winters; I cannot sleep in the dark.
To be forgotten by everyone I hold closest to my gravity
To be able to smile at the end of all my long days because the work I have chosen to be committed to feeds my soul.
The book reaching a place where I thought it could be shared.
All the points leading up to the book when it did not feel ready enough to be shared
If I have to mention someone outside family, I’d say Tanya Mendonsa. Her light has guided me through more than just writer’s block.
Hank Chinaski for all the mess he represents unabashedly
I am not sure of the word villain but I have always read Victor Frankenstein as a character born out of the darkest of human emotions- fear of failure and loneliness.
Tanya Mendonsa, Charles Bukowski, Pablo Neruda, Khaled Hosseini, Franz Kafka, Jeanette Winterson, Fernando Pessoa, Saikat Majumdar- to name a few.
Factotum by Charles Bukowski; Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda, Firebird by Saikat Majumdar, Ask the Dust by John Fante, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
I reread a lot of poetry- so I turn to Hikmet, Darwish, Ginsberg and Baudelaire.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Topgun, Before Sunset, Rocky and Mona Lisa Smile
Flash like speed.
Veni. Vidi. Amavi.
I am not too preoccupied with space as long as my people are with me. But I would have loved to see the Beatles perform Don’t Let Me Down live.
Cooking. A thousand times over.
None. I like the books I like for their voice and if I had written them, they would have sounded different.
When there is silence but music; on the floor of my room back home, in the metro, in a café, at my spot in my University, in between conversations
Music in silence.
It is a tie between que sera sera and c’est la vie
I am particular about the music I write to.
Nicholas Sparks and Archies.
Read or better still hear Charles Bukowski’s Bluebird. Everything I will like to say has already been said by him.
A Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow at SUISS, University of Edinburgh and a Young India Fellow with a Masters in Liberal Studies from Ashoka University, Pia Bakshi ia a scriptwriter and a language and elocution coach.She runs PhilARThropy, a volunteer driven social organisation, committed to creating an inclusive and accessible space for art through her work in under-resourced communities.An artist herself, she practices Zentangle and Abstract Expressionism. She is a singer-songwriter who also plays the guitar and the ukulele.
Some of her songs also find mention in the book.
She can be reached at piabakshi@bluestockings.co.
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