Write. Create. Listen to music. Eat good food. Drink coffee—lots of it. Enjoy good whiskey. Love. Live. Write. Create. Go out. Let the sun shine down upon you. Get back inside. Write more. Create more. Do better. Ink in your pen may dry up sooner than you think. You'll never know what your last story is going to be, your last written word on the page, the last whisper in your head. So—coffee again. Write until your brain dries up your thoughts and ideas. A sip of water, a sip of whiskey … maybe a splash of water in whiskey. Drink, write, and be merry, for tomorrow you may die. Write. Create. Live.
My first tryst with horror was The Zee Horror Show. One would argue that Duck Tales and TaleSpin were more suitable for an eight-year-old. But the intriguing charm of the new horror show, the first of its kind on Indian television, was hard to ignore. Most episodes were rooted in superstition and dark magic. The actors who played the roles of ghosts were almost always in low-budget prosthetic makeup – a desperate attempt by the makers to scare the audience. That didn’t scare me at all. What really scared me, however, was the reaction of the characters to the situations they were often thrown in. Stand behind a door and say ‘Boo!’ and you may startle a few. But if you were to tell them a backstory about a young man who never left his room and went mad before strangling himself to death. If you were to then guide them into the room, slowly, they will imagine the rest and scare th...
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