Interview Author Riya Ramudamu who believes that writing is an emotional connection with oneself
Hello everyone. This is meera. Gopalakrishnan. And once again I am back with my newswellcast. And this time I have with me as my guest Ms. Riyadh Ramu Dhamu who is a teacher by profession and an author by passion. So if I want to tell about Ms. Rhea in one word, I would say that for her, writing is not just a passion, it's an emotional connect with oneself. So I extend a warm welcome to Ms
Riya Ramudamu
@Reeha25 · 1:02
You. Hi. Thank you for inviting me and having me here today. So, first of all, I would like to say my journey as an author has been very unpredictable. So I never thought I'm going to write a book or I never thought I'm going to publish any book or even of being an author. It just happened. I simply started writing or pouring my thoughts down in a paper and then eventually ended up coming up with a book. I did had multiple poems written
You. Most authors never plan to write a book, Ma'am. But I am happy that you were courageous enough to finally take that step of publishing a book. Because I believe once you do that, then there is no going back. You will be inspired by the fact that your book is being read by others. People are giving feedback which will motivate you to write more and publish more. So it's a wonderful decision. Not everybody can take it
Riya Ramudamu
@Reeha25 · 1:22
So rather than I saying that I would impart or I'm imparting some kind of knowledge or some kind of mentoring through my poetry, I would say that it's the reader who can relate to the poetry and they can come up with their own scenarios, their own understanding, and their own learnings. I think it's more that way because unlike stories, which comes with morals and some kind of there are a lot of storylines that story comes up with. But unlike that poetries are free
Yeah, I agree to that point. Like for a story, mostly the authors will have some intended message through their characters and the readers also kind of resonate with that message once you read the story completely. But poetry is free to interpretation. Each word might mean different a reader, what the author intended can be different and what the reader feels can be different, especially if the emotions are expressed in the poetry
Riya Ramudamu
@Reeha25 · 2:09
And talking about poetry being my emotional connect or being connected to poetry emotionally, I'd rather say that how I connect with my poem or how I write my poems is basically each one of us, in each one of our lives, so many thoughts are going on in our mind. So at times, there are so many things. We are overburdened with our thoughts, we are overburdened with so many things
I can very well relate to that as an author because I have written three books and whenever I go back to them and read some chapters as a reader sometimes I myself is amazed like did you create this character or did you create this situation? And I'm like okay, you have provided solution for this situation also
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Riya Ramudamu
@Reeha25 · 3:25
And when I am to talk about my book okay, so when I'm to talk about out my book the Unspoken emotions I would like to say that this is a book with the collection of 15 poetries and a lot of quotations in between. So I would like to tell the listeners that each poetry has different emotion as the name of the book itself suggests. It's the unspoken emotions. So it would not be wrong to say that every poetry holds the emotions which at times we fail to express
The reason why I ask to most authors is that each one have their own different opinion about it. And I never know which tip helps who, which tip add confidence to the person. So it's always nice to share author's view on how they overcome the hesitancy and what tip they can give to the youngsters who want to publish
Riya Ramudamu
@Reeha25 · 3:12
So we never know when we are inspiring someone, and we never know what is going to inspire us at certain point of time. So it might be the smallest of things that we are doing might inspire others, and what others are doing, the tiniest of things can inspire us too. So what I would like to say is to not just the writers, but all your listeners, I'd like to say that never give up on your dreams, no matter how big or small it is
You. Thank you for that. Wonderful words, ma'am. It was great to listen to it. And I would like to tell my listeners one thing, what she has highlighted that there will be questions. See, many people are even I myself have not taken first trip towards my dream or what I want because of questions. We will think like what my parents ask, what my society tells. And if I walk on this path, if I fail, how will I answer these questions?
Neena Maiya
@neenamaiya · 0:26
Giving up on your dreams is like giving up on yourself. That's something I would tell people to never, ever, ever do. Even if you do one little piece of your project today, and the next day another piece, and the third day another piece, and every day you do a little bit, when you step back, you'll see the entire project and how beautiful it is