The Chennai Blogger’s Club has been breeding ground for ideas, creativity and action for many years but recently there’s a marked trend of Blogger’s becoming authors. There are many success stories of blogger’s turning into Authors from Jeff Bullas to Arnab Ray - The Great Bong and our Chennai Blogger’s club has not been left out of it’s own share of celebrities, too. So decided to showcase some of them in this post. (Please note, Dhasa is not a member of CBC though). Friends, Fellow Bloggers and Published or Aspiring Authors, here you go…
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| The Authors from Chennai Blogger's Club Ganga, Dhasa, Kavipriya, Rajesh and Eshwar |
Probably the first one to publish from the Chennai Blogger’s Club. The author has two award winning short films to her credit and now has published two successful books. Apart from being a technical analyst and short filmmaker, she is writer for life. A simple girl with complicated dreams for the rest of the world.
Her two books ‘Just You, Me and A Secret’ and ‘A Minute To Death’ are beautifully crafted work of fiction
that remains life like. Reading through the book, I realised that she has a great potential and will be one of the good author’s to come out of CBC Group. Loved the some of the lines from the book…
“Love is blind and hence he decided to learn braille with her. Let their lips love, Let their legs fight, Let their hands talk, let their virginity rest in peace.” - Ganga Bharani
As Rilke said, “To be an artist means not to compute or count; it means to ripen as the tree, which does not force its sap, but stands unshaken in the storms of spring with no fear that summer might not follow." and I feel that her next book, which is promised to be released in a year or so, will see her reaching across further heights.
When you have the deepest desire to be what you want to be in life, I feel one usually succeeds to ‘Be’ and Ganga Bharani is one such person. As she says in her book “A Minute To Death’ through one of the character, Riya…
“I will even die to become a writer” - Ganga Bharani.
An interesting twist in the tale and casting simple life aside, ‘HAVOC says hi’ does says so in the games of mind. Interesting read and with some interesting thoughts that got me to read the book. A love story with the underlying thrill, where the hero goes through the challenges, with the girl really knowing his love for her. “Her fragrance was all around the air. It had the force to push through the opposite wind and reach me.” - V J Eshwar
“Lost from the reality and hope which was nowhere to be found for her. Hope came in the form of a three words from a guy whom she barely remembered.” - V J Eshwar
A Chennai based business analyst and a guest writer, who is ambivert and a pampered southpaw. She possesses a flair for carving creative ideas and runs a blog that talks about professional ethics. I met her at one of the CBC meetings and then we connected again at the Author’s group, where we critic some of our writings. Reading her fast paced book, ‘I Don’t Wear Sunscreen’ was a pleasure. I could relate to the main character ‘Laksha’ very well as she ended up in the same profession as mine - Interior design. I liked the characterization of her boss a lot, but that is not the story. It is about the pain, which comes out in the end of her childhood friend. It is about a struggle where you fall and then get back up again, to the surprise of your friend who has a huge jealousy quotient stacked up within, against her friend. “Some times, life probes you and sometimes, life turns resilient.” - Kavipriya Moorthy in ‘I Don’t Wear A Sunscreen’
Life is interesting in the book and full of hope as Lakshya’s mother says in the book …
“Life pulls down every person to the least possible negativity and thrusts them outward to shine…. Seize the moment and grow, that’s all you can do and that’s why you are born.” - Kavipriya Moorthy
Absolute truth and I loved the words…
A professional blogger, whose blog is quite popular among CBC - where he is known as Destination Infinity. He
says, he had to become an Author because people did not believe that there is something called professional blogging. And we, bloggers are grateful that you are, Rajesh and have proved many times skeptics wrong that the blogging is an unprofessional occupation. As he is the most knowledgeable person in terms of Social Media, when he decided to write a book, he went to the source and brought out a book with the best returns. This in turn opened the doors of many new authors to write and publish their own books.
Coming to his book, ‘The Archers Revenge’ which is a fast paced political thriller, where the friends you find on your way, turn out to be your adversary’s turned back into being a friend you thought them to be, to begin with. A tale of revenge, intrigue and traps, this one finds you following the strategic actions by a son to avenge his father, bringing the down fall of a political master, stooped low in corruption and crime.
“You should first weaken them (Enemy - The Minister), make them vulnerable, and then strike.” - Rajesh Kollu
In the book, I find an interesting way of numbering the chapters in a kind of ‘Count Down’ style that got my attention and the plot creation and in the end tying up all the lose ends made me feel satisfied.
“… not as comfortable as a hotel room, but it’s more comfortable than a prison” - Divya to Aryan in ‘The Archer’s Revenge” by Rajesh Kollu.
Another professional, who has come up with an interesting collection of short story ‘Among The Stars’ with lot of beautiful interwoven thoughts. And that exactly is the essence of what I liked in the book. I think Dhasa has a lot to say and looks like that he has to really get into writing a novel. As the themes that he pursues need the whole canvass to paint.
Looking forward to reading him again.
A blogger, turned standup artist turned an author is an interesting Take 3 to come up with a book titled ‘Make it 2’ and probably she will join in to become one of the famous bloggers/authors line up in the Indian Blogging scene. Since the book is not yet
launched so I only get to see the blurb on the book yesterday when we met for our Blogger’s club meeting at Menchies on Khader Nawaz Khan Road, Chennai. Not the usual love story, I think, but the special take on the love with lots of wit and sarcasm thrown in… Looking forward to reading her book.
Shashi
ॐ नमः शिवाय
