Seema Chatterjee

Sun Sign

Leo

Three things people don’t know about you?

1. I was on B.B.C. Television as a child for a program called along with my twin brother –“Let’s make a story.’ 2. I am eccentric. 3. I do not conform, as I believe conforming hampers imagination, courage and growth.

What’s your greatest fear?

My greatest fear is ‘Fear’ itself. Once I overcome ‘it’ there will be nothing to fear.

What is your greatest achievement?

My greatest achievement is writing a book for adults that caused a stir. It touched a chord and polarized the community.

High point of your life?

My son getting into Harvard

Low point of your life

The death of my father,- the former Editor of The Times of India.

Which living person do you most admire?

Barrack Obama

Who is your favorite fictional hero?

John Galt-Ayn Rand

Who is your favorite fictional villain?

Snape in J.K. Rowlings Harry Potter

Who are your favorite authors?

Ayn Rand, Leon Uris, and J.K. Rowling

What are your 5 favorite books of all time?

The Fountainhead, Anna Karenina, Gone with the Wind, The Thorn birds, and To kill a Mocking bird.

Is there a book you love to reread?

To kill a Mocking bird and Atlas Shrugged

What are your 5 favorite movies of all time?

Quo Vadis, The Sound of Music, Mamma Mia, The Officer and The Gentleman, and Pretty Woman

One Superpower you wish you had?

That I could fly-not only on the wings of my imagination high in the sky. I would look down on mortals, and say, “ How silly is humankind. We make much ado about nothing!”

Your epitaph would read? /Last line in your biography would be?

“ I loved my life, but I know that the other side hold greater wonders… more than you and I can ever believe!”

If you had a time machine to take you back to any country and any time period, where would you choose to be for your childhood, adolosent , adult life and silver years?

I would chose London for my childhood, Bombay for my adolescent life, and a combination of Singapore and New Delhi for my silver years.

If you could acquire any talent, what would it be?

To write with abandon, fearless of the consequences.

Which book you wish you had written ?

A Grain of Truth, which I have.

When and where do you write ?

Writer’s are whimsical, idiosyncratic and moody and I epitomize all these traits.

Silence or music?

Both in equal measure.

One phrase that you use most often?

Creativity is an art, peddling it is a craft!

Do you have a writing ritual / superstition?

Yes- I believe that writing comes to you from a power that knows no limitations and manifests on paper on its own accord- a ‘Stylus God’ if there was such a thing.

What’s your guilty reading pleasure?

Reading on why human beings- are self-destructive and destroy not only themselves, but other humans as well, in their wake.

Do you have one sentence of advice for new writers?

Allow your soul to express itself with no limits. Soar like an eagle for you have only one life.

Seema spent her early childhood in Egypt and England. Graduating from Bombay, she later journeyed through Singapore, Colombo, Shanghai and Jakarta, as an expatriate. It was during this time that she discovered the ‘joy of writing’.

Witticisms and banter dot her writing for Seema loves transports her young readers to another world.

Children fly on the wings of her creativity as she whisks through the world of talking tadpoles, leaping leprechauns, dumpy-frumpy frogs, and errant elves.

The Mouse and The Flying Lamborghini is her fourth work after The Bumblebees and Other Stories, The Chattering Forest and A Grain of Truth- a collection of short stories for adults, expressing human frailties in darkness and in light.



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