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Rendezvouz
with
Paro Anand
May 9, 2019
When you take an interview with she said and look she is a didn’t read at all, I hated reading
a professional author, the world renowned author now! and one day I pulled out a book.
around changes. It is as if she’s Now coming to our chit chats, I got it because it had pictures
writing a new book and you are we asked some very random, but instead it really caught me
a part of it. We (Tisya Ahuja, must-know and earth shattering and made me a reader. The
VIII-A and Jayati Kapur, VII-D) questions and we did not know book was Born Free by John
were privileged to interview that we were in for just dramatic Adams.
the renowned author, Ms. Paro answers! Tisya: How and when did you
Anand on May 9, 2019. Her get in the stream of writing
pleasant, warm and passionate Jayati: How were you as a books? Was there any instance
answers made our conversation student and what role did the in your life which inspired you
as stimulating as a cup of coffee. school library play in your life?
towards writing books?
In interviews, you are bound Ms. Paro Anand: My school Ms. Paro Anand: When I was
to discover several subliminal and my librarian really had an in class seventh, I knew a lot
talents of one’s soul. Ms. Paro impact on me for all the wrong about animals. There had been
Anand is bubbly and is ready to reasons. If someone asked the an activity in my class and each
pop up and shine brighter than librarian for a book she’d say, student was asked to speak
the sun. We saw the face and “No!” She used to protect books a few lines about their pet
attitude of a mature lady but from children and try to keep animal. I had an ancient dog
through her eyes, we could also them as far away as possible who was like a carpet, instead
peep into a vivacious 10 year old very much unlike your Librarian I claimed to have a monkey. I
girl who says, ‘I wouldn’t change Mamta ma’am. However, my weaved a whole story about the
a thing in my life’. home library left a mark on me
because my house had walls of imaginary monkey and realized
Something as mundane as books. In my family, everyone that I was good at it. I found
reading seems fun when the loved books - my mother being the magic of writing. Then
person who has written it reads a teacher, my father, a journalist when I was a drama teacher,
it aloud to you, the way she and my sister, an avid reader there were all kinds of clichéd
wants every reader to interpret reading way beyond her age. stuff on mythology, all of which
it. “I hated reading as I child”, I was the joker in the pack. I was boring, so I started writing
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