eFiction India eFiction India Vol.02 Issue.09 | Page 53

INTERVIEW

scene was re-written after I’d finalised the title, it explains it all…
“It’s like I was a star off track, off target, wandering in the cosmos and
then suddenly I felt a gravitational pull towards you and I forgot my
gait. I began moving retrograde in your direction, just like the precession of the Equinoxes. My soul was absent until you came in my life,”
his voice softly caressed the insides of my ears. How similar were our
feelings for each other. And, for me he would always remain the sun
of my existence. I too felt the same, as if I was a star gone astray in
the cosmos, and because of him I found my path, my orbit. He tilted
his head bringing his line of vision at me, “Have you heard of torqueinduced precession?”
I had read it in astronomy, but had a vague idea about it. I shook
my head.
“Hmmmm..” he buried his face in the curve of my neck, again. “You
came in my life like an external force. A force so solid that you made
a trying saint forget his damn equilibrium.”

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AD: DO RICHARD AND APRIL EXIST OR HAVE EXISTED
IN REAL LIFE, OR IS ‘EQUINOX’ TOTALLY A WORK OF
FICTION?
HJ: The fantasy that we used to create as Sophians, of a ‘perfect guy’
is what I have tried to bring alive in the form of Richard Chase.
I think it would be so unfair if I agreed that Equinox is totally a
work of fiction, even though the characters never existed and do
not exist in real in my life, yet they are so alive and existent inside
me, that I’m just unable to separate from them. I do not have
any friends as close to me as my fictional buddies. I might sound
slightly cracked up here, but April and Richard are more real to
me than any of the ‘real’ people around.
AD: HAS WRITING ALWAYS BEEN