Coming of Age Stories for Young Adults

IMPOSSIBLE SECRETS

Songwriter and author Anmol Malik daughter of music director Annu Malik, and another prolific writer with 17 books to her credit, travel writer, poet, Vibha Mitra, explored the softer dimensions of the Impossible Secrets: Coming of Age Stories for Young Adults' in a session moderated by RJ Mehak 98.3 Mirchi Chandigarh

 

Working with Yash Raj Films as a scriptwriter, Anmol said that love romcom but it is not all sugar and fun, it takes cares of lot of serious issues, like the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai formed the backdrop of my book, and is about love story of a Russian guy and Indian teenage girl, but is beyond a stereowriter.   I studied screenwriting at Warwick and that impacts the dynamic between your characters and therefore it is dialogue heavy since you tell their story.

 

She talked about her character, especially Arya, whose goal in life is to slip in thru the cracks and she tries to cheat the system even for passing her exams in college.

 

Studying abroad makes you much more responsible, and mature, and the lessons I personally learnt there I have put them across in this book also.  

 

Vibha, whose recent book "The Secret Life of Debbie G" said that writing for the young adults one has to be very careful especially using safe choice of words that resonate with them.

 

There is always a story in everyone back of the mind and one need to share it, said Anmol, and though I am writing regularly I do not know as yet what it would be, and Vibha plans to do a book for older readers.

 

The award-winning author and journalist with his recent bestseller, "2019: How Modi won India" Rajdeep Sardesai, the consulting editor with India Today, was another highlight of the evening session 'Power Coffee' in conversation with author Jupinderjit Singh

 

The session on 'Mystical Poetry from Tagore to Years' saw Irish poet now settled in India Emer Davis who has recently published her anthology during a pandemic, "Poetry in the Plague Year', along with Dr Reba Som, an academic, historian, writer and former director of Indian Council for Cultural Relations in conversation with Nisha Luthra.

Another evening session "Raw and Crunchy: The Supernatural Benefits of Super Foods", author and food enthusiast Lily Swarn, a power-packed panel comprising Erini Loucaides, a published Australian-Cypriot writer is a winner of Bridport Prize 2020 along with Kavita Devgan, nutritionist and author of popular 'Fix it with Food'  talked about the power of simple, wholesome, everyday foods that can provide important nutrients for optimum mental and physical health.

The last session of the day "Once Upon a Time: The Fabulous Four Met a Spyder' focused on children writing, and revolved around the latest novel "Itsy Bitsy Spyder" by Bangalore based author Apeksha, and another children's writer Rajesh Talwar whose recent fantasy "Fabulous Four Battle Zoozoo Wizard" has been published.