To You

A book about love, loss, and healing. To You, takes you on a journey through the life you've already lived, showing you what you always oversaw, making you feel what you could never find the time or space to completely feel and making you the individual you were always meant to be. No matter who you may be, where you may be, and how you might feel at this point of time, the book is just a letter to you, from you, by someone who's just like you.

Chaitali Nath, welcome back to Martin Matthews Writes!

Hi again Martin. It's great to be back! I remember asking you to meet me when my second book released, and look at it happening!

It had to happen! Remind us a little bit of who you are, Chaitali.

I'm a young lady of 19, the daughter of two brilliant doctors, Dr. Paras Nath and Dr. Anupam Nath Gupta, the elder sister of an intelligent brother, Shubham Nath. Educationally, I'm currently a medical student at College of Medicine and Sagore Dutta Hospital, Kolkata. Before this, I did my schooling from Delhi Public School, Siliguri. In my own words, I'm a passionate paradox. I've written two books till date. The first one is named Soul Spoken, it released in 2018 when I was still in school. The second one is named To You, which released on the 22nd of June, 2022.

Awesome. Tell us a little about your new book!

It's a poetry collection that talks about love, loss and healing. These are three things that keep going on in our everyday lives, yet we seem to oversee them, in some measure, atleast. This book aims to bring you back to those moments which you might've been overlooked and hold you close when you want someone to.

Tell us a little about your themes.

It's about 6 ideas, who have been named: 1. The one I love/The one who loves me 2. The one not meant to be 3. The one I lost and loved 4. The one who loved but couldn’t understand me 5. The poet I loved 6. To my younger self

Where did the idea for this book come from?

Like the first one, I wasn't aware I was writing a book. I was writing poetry. It was much later that it became a book. The idea that brought together the book was that it was Sushant's, Sushant Singh Rajput, that is, it was his dream to write a book, and I want to fulfill his dreams. He is the reason I live my dreams.

Is there a message behind your book? What is it?

It is that one is not alone in feeling what we feel. The book aims to be that friend you can open up to, the one who gets you, the one who holds you close, the silent hug, the quiet understanding. Because that's what we all need in this age and time.

That’s a comforting message! Who or what are some of your biggest influences?

There are many people who have influenced me, but more than the others, it's been my parents, my brother, Urvashi and Sushant.

What are you currently reading?

I'm currently reading Physics of the Soul.

Are you working on another book? Can you tell us anything about it?

I'm working on a couple of projects right now, but it's hard to disclose anything right now.

Why Sushant? Would you also, at some point in time, like Sushant did, leave your studies to join Bollywood?

Objectively, even I don't know. But it feels like a calling from the within. *laughs* I have no such intentions, at least as of right now. Where the future takes us, is a different question altogether.

Thanks for stopping by and chatting with me today, Chaitali!

Thank you for having me again, Martin. It was a pleasure. I hope to see you again!