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STORIZEN   INTERVIEW
How did you
come up with the
idea of giving
your book this
title? Is there any
particular story
behind it?
‘Friendship
redefined by two
people who have
only one thing in
common –
Writing’- Is this
relevant to your
life?
When I began
writing the story,
which was about
two writers and
their independent
individual strengths
and ideologies, I
immediately knew
that the title needed
to resonate with the
concept of creation
and the creator.
Somewhere in the
process of art
reaching across to
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more and more
people, as great art
does, the ownership
of it ceases to
matter. The piece of
art – whether a
painting or music or
literature or
sculpture – begins
to live in the hearts
of the people who
behold it. The
genesis of this art
ceases to matter.
Thus, the title
‘Anon.’ short for
Anonymous was the
perfect fit. This
book cannot be
called anything
else. And yet, ‘what
is in a name?’!
The book is not
inspired from my
life or any
friendships in my
world. It is
completely from my
head, drawn from
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imagination. But
like every writer
would tell you, there
is a bit of me in all
the characters I
write and bits of
them break off and
come live inside
me.
Can you tell us
about the
characters in the
book?
As unpredictable as
the wind, Debottam
is the lost, wayward
young man, errant,
marching to his own
beat, he’s happy to
be drifting through
life. A gifted writer,
he has no desire or
ambitions, is almost
socially inept on
account of his
inability to
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