NEW DELHI, Sept twenty-two Former investment landowner Anish Trivedi portrays a changing India in his entrance novel where coffee as well as croissants have been upon a breakfast menu as well as youngsters earn some-more than their fathers ever did.Call Me Dan, recently launched in India, is a jaunty look during a new India where organised marriages as well as one-night stands have been partial of a protagonists poke for love.The novel revolves around Gautam Joshi, aka Dan, a 30-year-old call centre senior manager in Mumbai with a penchant for late nights as well as women.Trivedi, who lives in Mumbai, gave up Wall Street to run a media company, act, host radio, as well as write. He has created dual plays. He spoke to Reuters about his career shift as well as writing:Q: Did we set out to write about Mumbai as well as Indias youth?A: we wanted to write about a shift which todays girl have been seeing in India as well as how it has done a shift in their lives. While progressing generations were amongst a initial to be born in a giveaway India, this is a initial to be born in a nation after mercantile reforms as well as liberalisation were introduced. After decades of experimenting with socialism as well as government carry out over all aspects of our lives, we right away have a multitude which flourishes in a single of a most energetic economies in a world. As a male lead in Call Me Dan says, we skipped a era compared to a rest of a world.Q: Any reason for making Dan work in a call centre?A: Call centres as well as alternative industries similar to them have been emblematic of a new Indian mercantile landscape, some-more so because they suggest a young workforce a possibility to earn tall salaries, significantly some-more than their relatives could. They have been a drivers of shift in this country, giving mercantile leisure to a whole strata of society. Placing a male lead in a single allowed me to make use of a dualit! y in his hold up as a device to draw upon a differences in between a environment within as well as outward his home as well as a multitude in which he was brought up.Q: Tell us about your research for a novel.A: Its a book about people, seeking for love, seeking for a most appropriate probable hold up they can lead in a evident term. we think thats something weve all done. It didnt take most research to be means to give voice to those thoughts.Q: How hard was a shift from investment landowner to writer?A: we was lucky. we often joke about a actuality which in my final month as an investment banker, we flew from Mumbai to New York four times to have lunch as well as come back. But which was partial of a problem, not having a time for anything alternative than work. we done what was a hobby a profession as well as built a business around air wave as well as television programming. The writing, initial as a playwright as well as right away as a novelist, is a subsequent transition we guess. But since we right away do what we enjoy, giving up a seven-figure salary hasnt been as hard as we thought.Q: What have been we working upon next?A: Another play is a essay as well as Im being asked for a subsequent novel so we theory its time to begin meditative about that.Q: Tell us about your essay schedule.A: Im an early riser so Im during a keyboard sometime around 7 a.m. as well as Ill take which by to a late sunrise or a early afternoon. we might spasmodic revisit a manuscript during a day though for a most partial we similar to a sunrise to write. Loads of coffee while we write as well as a cigar during around 11am help too.Q: Any advice for determined writers?A: we think with just a single book published Id be considered an determined writer myself. But we would say, be true to your writing. Dont try as well as write what we think an audience wants to read. Reuters
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