Tripuresh Dwivedi’s A Thing Called love is about people’s preferences in life. The author chatted with Pallavi Gupta
There’s no dearth of romantic novels where characters beat all odds of this world to be together. love is often tagged as selfless and is above all the ill feelings. Rarely novelists have presented the dark side of fairytales where love takes all the beatings. Tripuresh Dwivedi’s A Thing Called love is an odd one out in those lists. Set in 90s, the book presents a ‘selfish love story’. “It is not a selfless, love story. Rather, it narrates a selfish love story. How typical of our generation…it is story about finding the meaning of love. Of being able to differentiate many strands that tend to get confused with love. It is a story about love for its own sake,” said the writer.
Dwivedi has been writing since childhood. “I used to write in school and college. A lot of my articles have been published and this is my first attempt at writing a novel,” said Dwivedi.
He is a poet and his writings have always taken a form of poetry. lovingly prodded by friends, he took to write something more than just a poem, an idea that gradually evolved into a novel. He said, “I form a part of the novel. The book is a compilation of my experiences and of others’ that I know. It spins around the ups and downs on the road of love — the good times, the bad times and the worst times that circles two individuals.” He added, “My writings have always been on my life experiences. Romance does not only relate to individuals alone, one can also romance with nature and God. I believe it is multi-dimensional. I romance with my writing.”
With his first attempt at prose, the 37-year-old writer is content. He writes fiction but loves to read non-fictional books on astronomy, astrology and science. “While reading a book people search for themselves in the script, something they can relate to, someone they can recollect about. A book takes a person back in the memory lanes of the incidents lived or makes them understand the existence of paramount things. A good piece of reading involves connecting the reader to the words he eyes on,” said Tripuresh.
All set to offer more love stories to the readers and soon to publish a collection of mystical love poems Dwivedi said, “Through this attempt I have tried to understand love. Two people, both selfish, fall irrevocably in love. What happens thenIJ This is the question and it has always been a question. I do not have the answer to it but only an experience to tell through my novel.” “We live one life, but reading a book allows us to experience another life all together,” he added.