Enid Blyton has been the founding stone on which several writers have built their careers and it was no different for Namita Dayal. “I think I have always enjoyed creating and exploring different worlds and making up stories in my head,” says Namita, about a habit that was probably supplemented by all the Amar Chitra Kathas and Enid Blytons that dominated a large portion of her staple reading diet.
Namita was in town for the launch of her latest book,
Aftertaste in Landmark. . Set in the 60's, this book follows the drama around a dysfunctional joint family on the verge of bankruptcy. The book is fiction with features Namita has stolen from real life.
Namita had an upbringing that balanced her parallel lives with precision; a modern school and western standards of education with a very traditional gurukul world of Hindustani classical music, and it was in this miraculous world of classical music she found her first book,
The Music Room, which Pandit Ravi Shankar called a must read for every musician and music lover.
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