Goodreads asked Kusum Choppra:

How do you get inspired to write?

Kusum Choppra The sight of the countryside wheeling past from a train or a vehicle is very dear to me. That, for me, is the Real India that keeps people like us in our comfort zones. Descriptions of all manner, emotions, moods, seasons, homes and their reflection on their residents, the countryside, whatever. The sheer beauty of the variegated shades of green and brown never fails to move me.
I am always amazed by the incredible variety of India, her people, their clothes, their food, their customs, everything, so different and yet so similar; moving together for centuries since the beginning of time. An awesome thought; almost an emotional experience!
A major inspiration of stories is the “What IF” factor. I read a story, see a film or a serial episode and wonder: What if the character had not done what was depicted, but something else? How would the story then turn and twist? A new story is created. What, after all, is a story? An experience, personal, witnessed, heard about, read off – Just a single grain of sand, a kernel around which the author does verbal embroidery, leaving the reader guessing over what is fact and what fiction.

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