Goodreads asked Nirmala Moorthy:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Nirmala Moorthy Thinking back over my life I just can’t find anything mysterious that has happened to me. There have been tragic deaths and accidents that can, I suppose, happen in any family. But I have always used every real-life fact I can remember in my books. And some facts are difficult to forget. What mystery I have encountered I have been impelled to put into the books I have already published. In fiction it is always possible to arrive at a satisfying conclusion by means of intuited facts that cannot damage innocent parties because fiction is not really fact. Some of these mysterious happenings have been conveyed to me by friends or even newspaper reports in the various countries in which I have lived. Sometimes the questions of what, why, where, when and, most importantly, “who” have kept me awake at night. During my 30 odd years as first a reporter, and later as a feature writer and social commentator, I have often written them up. But they have always ended with a question mark. Some of these newspaper articles were published in 2015 in my fourth book “The Twain Shall Meet”. My favorite episode is a very short story titled “Hope For The Dead” that relates the “facts” of a really unbelievable episode.

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