Storizen – July 2019

COVER STORY

STUDY THE PAST TO DEFINE THE FUTURE

MANREET SODHI SOMESHWAR

AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

by Pria

8 | STORIZEN MAGAZINE JULY 2019

From an MBA Graduate from the IIM

and doing marketing, advertising,

and consulting to writing books,

how the journey has been so far?

Eventful. It has surprised me even!

After writing the highly successful books including Earning the Laundry

Stripes, The Long Walk Home, , Mehrunisa Trilogy, Manreet Sodhi

Someshwar is back with her next - The Radiance of a Thousand Suns. She

tells about her journey and about her books and why to study the past to

define the future in a tete-a tete with Pria.

rise, at the turn of the

millennium, I was to take a

sabbatical from the life of a

corporate road warrior and

indulge in some ‘me’ time. On

my way to realising this barmy

prospect in sunny Singapore,I

collided with the plains of

Punjab. Rather, its fields. That

grew mustard and wheat and

rice and, for a period in the

eighties, militants. Which made

my little town on the Indo-Pak

border a militant hotbed. And

Did anything inspired or motivated

you to start writing? (Any book you

read etc?)

Writing snuck upon me in the guise

of a tai tai, a Chinese colloquial

term for a woman of leisure.

Perched atop a Singapore high-