Where did the germ of this book emerge? Was there a trigger point or a thought that made this book take shape and form eventually?
Actually, it emerged from a little short story I was writing during the last year of my college. I had planned to write a story about a young guy called Pablo, who would go to attend his aunt's wedding in 2002 and fall in love. But I wanted some obstacles in front of him. Hence, I had to create the social and political duress under which Pablo's first love blossoms. When I wrote about twenty pages, more characters and subplots emerged. I realized it would become a novel. So I wrote down the last chapter and set out to write the rest.