BHARAT MADAN | Author Interview

In college, I participated in every co-curricular and extra-curricular competition (won most of them), organised events and was a People’s person. After college, I learnt various dance forms like Contemporary, Hip-Hop, Bollywood and Jazz.

I like to keep myself occupied in creative endeavours and things that benefit people around me.

Apparently, I am the youngest member of Lions Club Jaipur Diamond and engaged in charitable activities like blood donation, tree plantation, distribution of food to the hungry people, organising medical camps, conducting motivational sessions, giving donations, helping differently and specially-abled persons.

I am a big-time gourmet and movie buff. I am not really fond of adventure and travelling. People find me friendly, helpful and charismatic.

But I didn’t have a story and I wasn’t certain which genre I should foray in. During summers I thought, ‘Why not start writing anyway, let’s see where my mind takes me’.

I am a spontaneous writer, not a planned one. Whatever I wrote was dark and mysterious. At that moment I realised that I had written something about a Sin, one that is mentioned in a few mythological texts of the world.

I had been always fond of Vedic Astrology and somehow I was able to connect that Sin with a planet. I think it was Mars or Venus. I realised that there’s a connection. That moment I discovered my story.

People who understood appreciated me and people who didn’t, left my book less than mid-way. I realised that a book is not just a collection of words; it has to connect with the reader with an ocean of sentiments.

I decided that my work will be reader-friendly and I felt that this way I had less pressure on me and I could write better.

For Jim Morgan and the Seven Sins, after I got the idea, I read the Bhagavad Gita, a little bit of the Holy Bible, and read a lot about the seven deadly sins.

I was able to develop a connection between my findings and astrology. It was very difficult though. But in order to make a brilliant book, I had to have strong research backing me.

There are so many inspirational figures out there and yet people here give me this privilege. School kids let me enter their world of happiness and I am so grateful to them.

As a motivational speaker, there are two challenges that I face. First, I am young and I am doing something that nobody of my age in Jaipur City is doing.

Sometimes School/College Authorities feel that I cannot deliver because I am inexperienced. So a few don’t give an opportunity to speak.

Second, it is difficult to gain entry into institutions. Without a big name or strong contact, it is as good as impossible for a youngster to get a session of 500 students.

Most of the School Principals are females, so they definitely support. I guess the mother inside of them comes out when I talk to them, and they give me an opportunity.

And I am lucky that the Lions Club has always believed in me and my abilities. Through them, I participate in organizing sessions at various places.

His book was a page-turner. He had so much research behind his work coupled with writing prowess.

Every time I wrote, I remembered his work and I asked myself, ‘Will I turn the page or not of my own work’. When I was convinced, I wrote more.

I believe that when I am good to the world, at least the world can be ‘not bad’ to me. These days, I don’t get angry much. I motivate myself before I motivate others.

There are so many institutions who do not invite me to motivate students because I am not famous yet. Your ‘one purchase’ means that I am closer to that position through which people will allow me to do good to thousands of students.

You bring a difference not only to my world but to the worlds of the people who are and will be connected to me. I thank you for this.

What you’re doing, will inspire so many. And I will make sure that your passion reaches people.