Musings

When I decided to write the story of cancer patients it was not a new decision. I was contemplating of writing about the fatal disease from a very long time. In fact more than 3650 days!

On one hand, I wanted to write. On the other hand, I was not ready to give any solution for the problem because I am not qualified to give!

So, I decided to take a via media path. Why not bring out awareness and if possible, a few preventive measures too?

I have seen people who have literally ‘dumped’ their parents in front of an old age home. Actually it is good in a way. The children are good. They could have left somewhere at the end of the world where they won’t be taken care.

I have seen parents, heard about parents, who went out of their children’s lives/houses, since they had contacted the never curable disease.

With this background I decided to write. I wanted the blog to be small and readable in a very few minutes. The other idea was to keep an element of suspense every day so that the readers should at least feel like continuing the next day.

I am not sure how much I have been successful. But at least two of my readers have said that it is gripping and melancholic. A rare combination! I had read my favorite Author Mr. Yandamoori Veerendranath’s racy novel about a girl who has cancer – Prarthana. Ever since then I was wondering whether I would be able to write about cancer and still create an element of suspense throughout the novel.

There were other points raised by one of my readers. I usually keep attractive names for the characters. In this book, there are only names throughout the book. Nammu and Dammu. All other characters have their names as their professions. I wanted to be the narrator, but I felt a young man would fit the bill. Hence the first person narration.

I have to be pardoned because this is a novel I wrote after 10 long years!