Kindness helped individuals survive pandemic: French author Tiffany Tavernier – Instances of India

Once we face a state of affairs the place we’ve misplaced every thing, it is rather simple to fall again and lose hope, however it’s extra vital to go on, says Tiffany Tavernier, French novelist and screenwriter. “At such a time, love, kindness and compassion offers us hope. That is what occurred in the course of the pandemic. Folks met with crises however sudden kindness from uncommon and surprising locations helped them survive,” says the writer of Roissy whereas in dialog with Naveen Kishore, writer, on the subject of Kindness in fractured occasions’ on the Instances Litfest.

She provides that therapeutic is essential to go on in life. “Colors, music, language grow to be essential within the course of. Once we lose our existence, we fall again to what’s poetic inside us. It’s important to see a light-weight when you find yourself drowning. It helps us to come back again to the first purity of the self and see kindness,” says the writer, who misplaced each her mother and father — screenwriter Colo Tavernier and the director Bertrand Tavernier — prior to now one 12 months and struggled with void in her life.

She says that she places her private experiences into her characters to deliver them to life. “Roissy is misplaced in her personal catastrophe like a number of us in the course of the pandemic and she or he finds a method out by way of love and kindness,” she says, including that we have to discover the misplaced compassion on this planet.

The writer lived in Kolkata when she was a youngster and nonetheless fondly remembers the place. “I lived there after I was 19 and after I visited the place once more two years in the past, I used to be glad to see that the compassion within the individuals there may be nonetheless the identical. The place has a mixture of intelligence and struggling. It helps you query your existence and that’s what we have to survive the robust occasions,” she says.