Covid-19 warriors, survivors wield pen as pandemic inspires fiction
Hindustan TimesDr Maheshwar Prasad Chaurasia always wanted to write a novel. My book is about how the doctors and the administration fought the pandemic in its initial months,” says Chaurasia, whose book -- Just Switch Off Corona -- was released last month. Interestingly, a majority of these books -- poetry, fiction, non-fiction in English, Hindi, Tamil and many other Indian languages -- are by first- time writers and have been brought out by self- publishing companies. I used many real incidents to connect the dots, ” says Dr Shyam, a general surgeon, who owns a 100-bed hospital in Hapur.“Being a doctor helped me write about virology with authenticity,” says the doctor, who wrote the book every night in his personal library that boasts 3,000 books. Sayed Arshad, founder of Blue Rose Publishers says the reason why most books have been published by self- publishing companies is their ability to bring out a book fast, something many of the writers want.
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