Author Bio: Sreekala Sukumaran hails from Kottakkal, an important town in Malappuram district, of Kerala. She was wholly brought up and educated in Chennai. A second-rank holder in the Telephone exchange course of the Tamil Nadu Government, after graduation, came back to Kerala after marriage. On official placement of her husband, she had lived in Kottakkal, New Delhi, Kottayam, and presently is in Thiruvananthapuram, into the Hospitality business, heading an Ayurvedic treatment center. Sreekala Sukumaran started composing poetries in 2008.
Husband: Dr. Sukumar Varier, Senior Physician and Manager, Arya Vaidya Sala Kottakkal Branch, Thiruvananthapuram
Daughter: Devika Sukumaran, Trichy ( Still Photographer and graphic designer),
Son: Dheeraj Sukumaran, Kochi ( Music Composer and programmer),
Son-in-law: Dr. Girish Varrier, Trichy ( Ayurveda Practitioner, Ashtanga – Ayurvedics),
Daughter-in-law: Dr. Aparna Dheeraj, Kochi ( Ayurveda Practitioner)
The Literature Times: Author, welcome to The Literature Times. Congratulations on the publication of your book! What feedback do you get from your readers? Please share your thoughts on this book.
Author: Thank you Very much to all at Literature Times, for this recognition. After the publication of the book, I expect more feedback, but now with the notifications and advertisements, the close circles of my friends and relatives are wishing me all the best for this book to be a hit in the book-marketing.
The Literature Times: What motivates you to become a writer?
Author: All that happens around me inspires me and motivates me as well. Over a period of time the impacts fill in me and it needs to be scribed. That is the sheer source of the 100-odd poems in this book. In other words, the motivation is the inner feeling of the poet to explain or explore anything with his/her own views and words.
The Literature Times: What are your favorite writing topics? Please tell us a little bit about your literary interests.
Author: My favorite topic is human relations and its intrinsic bondings, and the harmony of its merging.
The Literature Times: We were hoping you might tell us about some of the authors that have influenced you and whom you read!
Author: The Western writers who inspired me are P B Shelley, & WB Yeats, most importantly. Indian poets are Rabindra Natha Tagore and Kamala Suraiyya and Malayalam poets, Vallatol Narayana Menon, Kumaran Asan, and Ulloor S Parameswara Iyer, and ONV Kurup
The Literature Times: The title is unique and appealing; how did you come up with them? Please tell us the story behind it.
Author: There is a poem in this book by that name. I strongly believe that there are symphonies in each merging, the merging of brilliant brains and marvel hearts, singing romantic songs of love, and sharing life to live in peace.
The Literature Times: What are your achievements so far? Tell us something about your writing career.
Author: Truly, I am quite new to the world of literature, though I use to read. This is for the first time, I am compiling my works in the form of a book to be published. If my readers accept and recognize my writings positively, that would be my greatest achievement.
The Literature Times: What is your current goal in writing a career? How do you see your future in writing?
Author: Actually I have, indeed, many more to say to my readers. So I may set my goal to communicate with my good readers, who would think about what they read, reflecting on what they liked, learned, and want to know more about, helping readers to make sense of a text, generating curiosity and motivation to read more.
The Literature Times: Do you have any other novels in the works? Please keep us updated on your future endeavors.
Author: This compilation is my very first attempt. Novels are not there in my plan as of now. Unable to predict what my next endeavor would be. Only some better works might follow in this line of literary works
The Literature Times: How do you view Indian writing in the twenty-first century? What changes do you see in today’s writing style? Do you feel it has changed over time?
Author: Indian Writing will focus on contemporary literature,exploring 21st-century literary forms, modes, and genres including game writing, autofiction, speculative fiction, specialist poetry, Hypertext, and experimental fiction
The Literature Times: How simple/difficult was it for you to publish your book? What message do you want to send to aspiring authors?
Author: In my case, initially, the talent seemed to be not on view. Suddenly a surge set in, which extracted my poems to a level of publishing. My message to aspiring authors is that Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
