Heartbreak drives us crazy and makes us feel as if the world has shattered. Here is a guy who has conquered it and risen like a phoenix — Ravinder Singh.
“I wanted to bring her back to this world in my own way. I wanted to relive that courtship period one more time with the greatest possible details and writing about it provided me that,” he said.
Will You Still Love Me?, though a love story at the core, has a social message that the author wants to pass on. “Our roads every year consume 1.5 lakh people in crashes and lead to a good number of disabilities. My entire idea is to exhort people to be careful when they drive the next time. Also, in the book, the protagonist is from the north east, an Assamese who grew up in Shillong. I am also discussing the inclusivity angle,” he says.
“My stories usually begin with a revolution. In this story, revolution goes on and ends with another revolution. Those two revolutions exist between a love. The fluctuating graph of love never distracts the readers. It’s a capsule. I sugarcoat it with love. They consume it and then the entire medicine works out,” he says, adding, “But my next novel is about friendship. Even if I change the capsule, the basic element of it — emotions — I will hold on to. Emotions are very important to me.”
For Ravinder, it’s all about introducing the content in the right manner.
“Without the sugar pill of love, people won’t be able to consume the content. If I talk about road safety right away, it wouldn’t work. If I ask them to wear seat belts and helmets, they are not going to do it. They are going to look in to my eyes and ask ‘who the hell are you to tell me’. But once you find a new medium, they are ready to accept. It’s a different way to communicate in an interesting manner. Road safety is not a cool thing to talk about. I just found a medium to convey this thought and the medium was romance,” Ravinder explains.
He also doesn’t believe in titles. “Just because I am writing romance doesn’t make me a love guru. I am nobody to give advice. But still my readers ask for advice and I give them my opinion and say ‘If I am in the same circumstance as you, here is what I would do’,” he concludes.
