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Indian murder mysteries can match Agatha Christie or Sherlock Holmes : Author R. Giridharan

The team of Mumbai Live got in touch with author R. Giridharan as he weaves a story of every cop who flew too close to the sun and got transferred to the traffic department.

Indian murder mysteries can match Agatha Christie or Sherlock Holmes : Author R. Giridharan
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Throwing fresh light on the dark era of crime, author R. Giridharan weaves a story of every cop who flew too close to the sun and got transferred to the traffic department.

The author is currently a general manager in RBI and has travelled across the world as a banking ombudsman, international sports commentator and behavioural trainer. The team of Mumbai Live got in touch with R. Giridharan to understand what motivated him to write a book as a working professional and how the tale of a thrilling chase of a cop inside a corrupt machine is expected to engulf the readers.

Speaking about the idea for the book, Giridharan states, “I want to burst two myths, first that Indian murder mysteries cannot match Agatha Christie or Sherlock Holmes and Indian authors in this genre ape western authors. Second, that every problem requires Hi-tech and expensive solutions. My take is that good imagination can any day trump Hi-tech, high budget, bereft of imagination. So, a humble attempt to spread the two thoughts is the idea behind the book,”

Elucidating further on the title of the novel, “Right Under Your Nose” Giridharan says, “I had always been fascinated by the story of Lord Ganesha and Lord Karthikeya. They were competing for a reward. The first person who went around the world three times would be the winner. Karthikheya’s mount was the peacock, which could fly, Ganesha’s mount, the slow-moving mouse. Karthikeya had a head start and completed first round even before Ganesha had started. Ganesha however just went around his parents three times, as anyway, they constituted the world. My father used to say that the moral of the story is that all answers are right under your nose and you need an imaginative eye to see them. Hence the title,”

Furthermore, the ace-author asserted that it took him about a year and a half to finish the book. He further added that the part which describes a snake charmer’s daily routine and has methods for training snakes is the part he enjoyed etching the most while writing his book. When asked about the kinds of books he enjoyed reading as a child, Giridharan notified, “I used to read a lot of self-help books those on psychology, cricket, biographies and obviously crime fiction.”

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