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@Ramya · 1:43

Q&A with Author, Poet & Screenwriter Akshat Gupta

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Author, poet and screenwriter Akshad Gupta is passionate about writing stories and lyrics and has successfully done a balancing act between the restaurant chain that he manages and his penchant for writing. Some of his stories have attracted the attention of Bollywood and he has recently forayed into writing a fiction trilogy. Part one of his series, The Hidden Hindu, is the product of sheer dedication and research of well over two years

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Ramya V
@Ramya · 0:52
So, Akshayd, my second question to you is this was it a conscious decision of yours to focus on mythological fiction, considering the sensitivity in India when it comes to portrayal of religion, religion and spiritual themes in fiction? And my next question to you is a little bit about the research that you do in your writing. So what's the sort of research that actually goes into your books from both the mythological and historical point of view?
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akshat gupta
@author · 3:53

@Ramya

And he tells what his names were in Ramya and Mahabharata. He claims to have personally met Lord Ram, Akshat and Hanuman in Ramayana and Krishna, Balram, all the Pandwas, Korvas, Ashwattama and many more in Mahabharata. So who is Om Shastri? Why is he now caught? How is he alive? What is he searching for? And he also claims that he is in search of the seven immortals. So, Hindu mythology talks about seven Chiranji V, seven immortals
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Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15

Welcome to Swell!

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akshat gupta
@author · 3:57

@Ramya

It later happened that while I continued writing, somebody told me that it can become a good book. And later to do that, people saw it as a visual treat and then the visual lights were taken. So it just gradually happened while I started writing. I wasn't writing for any publisher or for any reader but myself, because I was enjoying writing it and my son, because I wanted to narrate it to him and make it the best story of his times
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akshat gupta
@author · 4:12

@Ramya

Then the world was told that there are nine planets revolving around sun and we call it a solar system. This happened not even around 100 years back. But do you think that the day NASA told us about solar system did we create this word soari mundle in Hindi, in Sanskrit? After that, NASA told us about solar system. Have we not been praying to these nine planets since thousands of years?
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akshat gupta
@author · 2:37

@Ramya

Biggest perk and biggest challenge of being a writer? Biggest perk, according to me, as we write, as we save our lives by not going to nine to to five jobs every day, we don't have to be a routine person as more than 50% of all this, that this is the time that you have to reach the office or you have to reach the school
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Ramya V
@Ramya · 0:41

@author The Hidden Hindu https://amzn.eu/d/3Xv0uFd

Hey, Akshat, thank you so much for these wonderful answers. It was great getting your perspective on so many things, especially loved all the background that you shared with us about the hidden Hindu. I'm going to go ahead and link the Amazon link for the book here for people to check out and perhaps follow your work as well. I so thanks again. This has been a wonderful, wonderful conversation and I do hope to have you back on swell on more such bookish conversations
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Tanishi Singhal
@iamtanishi · 0:34
Because this fell was really very nice to listen to. And the way you interacted with sir is very great. And his experience, how he evolved as an author and how he balances his restaurant chain and exciting. It's just so inspiring to listen to this. Swell and I came to know a lot of new things today. Thank you so much for doing this interview and posting it on Swell. It was really very nice listening to sir and you. Thank you. Bye
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