Author of Neumonia and other Sketch Stories

Dhimant Parekh, author of Neumonia and other sketch stories, Serene Woods’ Bestselling novel discovered the pleasure of writing when he started blogging at the age of 22. His blog boasts of an interesting tagline “Phew! The World Is Now In Safe Hands”. Dhimant’s book was launched by Serene Woods at the Oxford Bookstore, Bangalore and has been called ‘a little jewel’ by the Hindustan Times. Find out more about Dhimant through this interesting rapid fire.

• Trace back your writing :
Started in early twenties as an outcome of blogging

• Why Sketch stories :
Outcome of my theatre experience

• First piece ever written :
A blog entry about my day’s experiences

• Inspiration for writing :
R. K. Narayan

• Books or Movies? :
Books

• Favourite genre in books :
Short stories

• Favourite character from a book :
Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye

• Biggest dream :
To be a well known novelist

• What can Dhimant be found doing on any Sunday :
Reading

• Tips for authors :
Read a lot!

• Experience with Serene Woods :
Excellent

• Best thing about Serene Woods :
Swapnil - he makes all the difference

• Serene Woods can improve… :
Payment options by offering more choice

• One wish for your book :
Have more and more readers reach out to me

• Other than writing :
The Better India, start up for positive news

• What’s next for Dhimant :
A theatre production

Follow the star at http://www.dhimantparekh.com/ and discover his work in positive media through his start up The Better India at http://www.thebetterindia.com/