Nowadays the relationship are casual and there is very less seriousness among the relationship. I believe that if even we have few friends, they should be real and shouldn’t be limited to Facebook and Whatsapp. In my books I have tried to raise a bar on either love, romance and various other things which will help the youngsters to define the relationship goal. But I personally feel the essence of relationship is missing these days. How much the present teen romance have distorted the true meaning of love?Īnswer: My books are not generally combined with big issues as it is restricted to myself. I started writing and my first book released in 2011 and the next is my ninth book which is going to release shortly. I even though worked in an IT company for 18 months before following my passion, I feel that there is no security even in jobs. Obviously it was not easy for me to convince parents about a full-time writing career after completing your engineering and management. Why did you choose writing over a good-secured future in IT?Īnswer: I think writing is my passion as even then in the college-days I used to write. These books are of just few 100 pages which makes them easy to read either during a flight or a train journey along-with it being cost effective as it normally cost 100-150 bucks which are affordable even for a college student. That’s why people tend to connect with these books. The most important thing is that how you connect to the readers and romance is something which every individual goes through in his high-school or college days which also continues in corporate life. The main thing is that you also need to be very creative in that genre. What is the psyche of the Indian readers in terms of genre?Īnswer: That’s correct. Romance genre books are widely read all across India. According to official reports the readership is increasing even though the pattern has changed. India is the only country where paperback and hardcover books are selling more than any part of the world. Everyone wants to express their views with the advent of social media. People from smaller towns are also reading english books. Do you feel that with the rise of the digital media, book reading habit of people in India is decreasing? Are the authors preparing to overcome that?Īnswer: We can’t say that the reading habits are decreasing as the reading pattern might have changed. Even in metro cities it’s quite difficult to convince our parents for a love marriage, says eminent novelist Sudeep Nagarkar in his interaction with Nitish Raj of The Policy Times. Even though we consider ourselves modern and liberal, we still consider love marriage a social taboo. Somewhere we are afraid to open up in society. Till now, he has published nine novels, latest being the “Our Story Needs No Filter” as he announced the book telling his readers, “There will be no filter over the pseudo happenings around us.” His one of the finest novels, “It Started With A Friend Request” was the most popular fiction book in 2013, according to Amazon India. He is the recipient of Youth Achiever’s Award in 2013. His first novel “Few Things Left Unsaid” was published in 2011. He holds a B.Tech in Electronics Engineering apart from being an MBA graduate in Business Management. He is one of the highest selling authors in the Romance genre. Vivaan, an endangered species of ‘Friend’ who can accept even your candy crush request.Sudeep Nagarkar is one of the loved authors of India. Tushita, deceived by love only finds her prince in the diary she writes. To win the popularity vote, Geet strikes an unusual deal with college hottie Rudra – to be her ‘Fake Boyfriend’. Shibani, an extreme feminist who feels all men are same is a biker by passion and a BFF to Geet, one of the most unpopular girls in the college who is often tagged as a ‘Nerd’ or a ‘Freak’. She Swiped Right Into My Heart by Sudeep Nagarkar.Įvery girl needs just one man to prove that not all men are the same!!