Suku

An idea and an inspiration to realise the idea are extremely essential for giving birth to any masterpiece. Ideas get struck, get stumbled upon, get hit with, get captured while flashing before your imaginative eyes, or get saved during a communication exchange. Thereafter you need an inspiration to fructify the idea. The idea of this story has been in my mind for past few years. However, I didn't capture it in black and white immediately after it got conceived in the womb of the writer inside me. Why? Because, to me, the act of writing needed an inspiration to begin, just like the idea itself. The idea of this story came from my own village Harikrushnapur, (a remote village in the Ganjam district, state of Utkal/Orissa in the eastern part of India) from the old widows including my grandmother and whatever I had heard about my grandfather. But I was waiting for an inspiration. And now, the inspiration to realise the old idea has come from the very act of doing nothing or doing something close to doing nothing.