The current generation wants to go out and do so many things in terms of technology, creating art and so much more. But our core fear is about finding somebody or something — the one person or the one thing you are passionate about, explains author Javeeth Ahamed and we couldn’t help but agree. No matter how much we give in to our ‘wanderlust’, our ‘vacays’ still leave us ‘unsatisfied like’.
But at least the 29-year-old doesn’t need to worry in this case as he, who works at Freshdesk as a Business Development Manger, writes, and that’s his passion. But the characters of his debut novel Conversation with Chaos — the hippie, nonconformist Anjali and Vikram, the typical Madras boy who just wanted to finish engineering and get a government job — aren’t that lucky. Or are they?
“It’s not mushy romance. It’s about the conversations of the characters and how their love for each other changes,” he says of the novel, which starts in Madras and ends ten years forward in the city of love — Paris. He adds, “To all this there is a mystery angle which keeps you in guessing mode throughout,” and which obviously, he is not disclosing. But he does humour us with the reason for the word chaos in the title. Taking from where our conversation started about finding ‘that one passion’, he explains how we feel we are limiting ourselves if we choose what we love and with that “comes confusion and along comes chaos. A chaos which keeps us moving and keeps us in search.” We cannot resist but ask what love means to him. “It’s as simple as asking the person you like, at 1.30 pm, if they have had lunch,” he quips.
Rewinding to the start, he tells us how he chose to sail along with the blog bug which bit everyone in the early 2000s. Moving on from poems (“usually bad break up ones”) and short stories, he kept at it and around 2014, he met with an accident. Confined to the bed, he took to an old diary and he filled it with this story, which was first planned to be a series of short stories on his blog. But alas, destiny had other plans. Incidentally, he loves sitting in the noisiest coffee shops to write and when he is stuck, all he does is “look at people and think what the person does in life.” Sounds familiar doesn’t it! It is in between this chaos of conversations that he comes up with his creations.
More than words
Explaining why his “magical words” have caught attention of reviewers on Amazon he says that the language of the novel evolves with the characters. He likes to include hard hitting lines, not poetic, but part of the narrative
Right now
Currently, Javeeth is reading The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards. And his favourite author is Haruki Murakami
Up next
He is now working on a political drama and a second book which is not exactly romance, but his take on relationships.
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