Author Anurag interacts with readers through online session

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, April 12

In these days of social distancing, the Majha House on Saturday held an online interactive session with Anurag Tripathi, a Singapore-based banker-turned-author.

Anurag Tripathi completed his education from the Indian School of Business, Oxford. Following a career as investment banker, he wrote his first novel, a thriller, titled ‘Kalayug’ in 2017, which dealt with the art market. Presently, he lives in Singapore and during the session he talked about his second book ‘Dalal’s Street’. This book deals with the intricacies of the investment market and what goes on behind the scenes behind the numbers and figures we all see. The session was moderated by Dr Venus, Assistant Professor at GNDU. Anurag spoke about the difficult life choices he has made in his career. “It’s not very easy to give up a comfortable job and try your hand at something that is so prone to risk, making you vulnerable to financial losses. But there’s always the thrill of trying something risky. And the joy is doubled once you succeed; it can be very heady,” he said. Talking about his novel, ‘Dalal’s Street’, Anurag said the subject came naturally to him as he had spent years closely studying the market, getting the hang of it. “I’ve always loved telling stories. Telling stories came naturally to me and I just had this knack of keeping the audience engaged. Thus, writing came quite naturally to me”, he said.

Preeti Gill, founder, Majha House, said the online interaction was specially aimed at engaging the interested audience in literary activities. “We are living in very uncertain times and being safe is of paramount importance. But staying under lockdowns and curfews can be very frustrating due to lack of engaging activities. Therefore, we decided to go online in order to keep its members actively and constructively engaged. In the coming weeks, we will bring to our members more writers and speakers from India and overseas, who will be talking about books, writers, music and more,” she said.