Mumbai is a prominent character in Twice Written, the book that marks scientist and researcher K Sridhar's foray into the world of literature. In the book, the author attempts to dissect his love affair with the City of Dreams

Three intelligent, but confused 20-something protagonists Prahlad, Ananya and Laila strive to make sense of their lives through different approaches. This is the basic premise of Twice Written set in the buzzing Mumbai of the 1980s (Bombay at the time).



Sridhar, a professor of Theoretical Physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, talks about his first attempt at fiction. Excerpts from the interview:

What is someone with a research background doing writing books?
I live in Mumbai with my wife and daughter and I have lived here all my life except for some stints in London and Geneva. I work as a theoretical physicist at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai and I specialise in High Energy Physics. But, for me, it has never been physics to the exclusion of everything else. In fact, I believe my interests in literature, philosophy and culture invigorate my physics. So, at least for me, there is no tension between scientific research and novel-writing.