About Pawan Dua:
Pawan Dua, 52 years, is a humble, compassionate and energetic human. Born and raised in Delhi-NCR. He is a great integrator, who loves to socialize & collaborate with everyone. He believes that we live only one life, and that’s happening now. Each moment is a magic moment, and it can change our life and our world. He said that we are running, without knowing our path or destination – where are we going and where will we reach? So, we are neither enjoying the journey nor curious about the destination. Leave aside goal of life, we don’t even know the agenda of this moment, with clarity & objectivity. We are stressed, anxious and perplexed. Thus, instead of finding peace of mind, we have made pieces of mind. On professional front, he is an expert of large Projects, with 30+ years of experience in multinationals.
LiFT: Tell us about your book, the journey of writing it and its content.
Pawan Dua: My journey of writing this book commenced in January, 2021 while the cases of pandemic Coronavirus had started to settle, though the fear and tension was still prevailing. After seeing so much pain around, it triggered a thought in me that if life is so fragile then what is the point delaying everything for future. Life is happening now and instead of enjoying we are delaying everything. There is no guarantee of future, not even for the next moment. So why not make each moment a celebration and live fully. Before that I never thought that life could be helpless… My new belief was further strengthened while we faced the second wave of coronavirus, that engulfed the entire nation again by March-April, 2021. The consequences of which were even worse and more devasting than the first wave. So, I intensified my efforts to complete the book and released the same by Aug. 2021.
LiFT: Why you chose this title?
Pawan Dua: Right from the dawn of human life on this planet, we have been advocating peace and happiness, but still in unrest. Despite having achieved the advancements and developments in all spheres of life, we are still stressed, depressed, and perplexed. One of the major reasons is that we never live in present. We are always busy in memorizing the past or worrying about the future. So, I thought that until each moment become a Celebration, we can never be fully satisfied and contended. We can achieve true happiness when we have a happy mind, healthy heart & peaceful relations with everyone. Only then, life will become a Celebration Forever.
LiFT: When did you realize that you want to be a writer and what’s your inspiration behind it?
Pawan Dua: By virtue of my profession, I am Project Management Expert. For last over two decades, I been read and written almost 200 Contracts. Dec. 2018, I left my job at Schneider Electric and decided to consolidate my learnings. So, I decided to translate my knowledge and experience from “Brain to Book”, so that larger community could be benefited. So, I wrote my first book on professional domain, titled “Risks & Deterrents in Construction Projects”. I got good response. Soon, I decided to cover the bigger canvas, which is Life. There cannot be anything more interesting & intriguing than Life. So, my next book titled “Celebration Forever” focused on different paradigms of life. My primary objective is start giving back to community, in whatever form I can.
LiFT: Where do you see yourself ten years down the line in the world of literature?
Pawan Dua: Frankly speaking, it is too early for me to look so far. At present, I am learning to live in now moments and enjoy life. As such, I have no clear goal or dream set for such a long term, in the direction of literature. However, I am an optimistic person, I read a lot and will certainly continue to contribute my bit by writing, mostly related to good life or self-help.
LiFT: How much do you think marketing or quality of a book is necessary to promote a particular book and increase its readers?
Pawan Dua: These are two distinct areas, Marketing & Quality of Book. I don’t want to be diplomatic to answer this. I feel that the Quality & Content of book is super important, an Author and a book have to sustain for long time. Anyone can write anything, make promotion and earn money. But if the readers are not finding meaning and substance, I don’t think readers will be genuinely appreciate, remember for long or practice what an Author is trying to preach through its book.
I am not at all denying or discounting the importance of marketing. There are unlimited new books, magazines, blogs, articles, audios and videos, etc. are being released every day. So, the relevant audience needs the proper feeds, inputs and timely updates of new publications. Only good marketing can help the readers and authors both to connect and make a win-win situation. So, marketing platform is key to success for anyone to survive and sustain.
LiFT: What is the message you want to spread among folks with your writings?
Pawan Dua: Live in now Movement. Invest in building Trust & Relationships. Love what you do or do what you love. Your Work and Money is not everything in life. You have much bigger agenda of life, just find your striking formula, passion and goal, so that life become exciting, fulfilling, and Celebration forever.
LiFT: What do you do apart from writing?
Pawan Dua: I am a Projects, Contracts & Risk Management specialist. I render consultancy services on professional fronts. On personal fronts, I love reading, networking, collaborating and travelling.
LiFT: What are the activities you resort to when you face a writer’s block?
Pawan Dua: I don’t recall any specific block. I love writing, whenever I have time, I write. Yet, I try to spare 3-4 hours a week, so that I can make quality writing.
LiFT: Are you working on your next book? If yes, please tell us something about it.
Pawan Dua: Yes. I am writing on many blocking mindsets, which are holding humans to shine – if we manage them well, we can live longer, healthier and better.
LiFT: What are your suggestions to the budding writers/poets so that they could improve their writing skills?
Pawan Dua: Authors should remain lifelong learners first. They must read a lot themselves, challenge our own thought process and adapt new things. By reading more minds through books, articles and blogs, we can learn different, better and latest aspects of everything and then we can make better contribution through our contributions.
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9 thoughts on “In Conversation With Pawan Dua”
My experience of working with him is that he creat environment for everyone at a job in terms of involvement and interest in the job, every time in meeting , he will teach us about project , risk apart from that good guidances for personal life , such a great man I meet him in my career and following his foot print path is my privilege and more enough to be a good human being,
I worked with Pawan for nearly 5 years at Schneider Electric and I found him very honest, and full of Life. I have read his book also.. and same attitude is reflecting in the book. I recommend everyone to read this book which gives clear and implementable ideas to improve the quality of life..
Excellent stance and understanding of life, living in present is the key to everlasting happiness. Great going, Pawan.
Shri Pawan Dua, author of the book ‘Celebration Forever’ has rightly presented the concept of enjoying the present moment by promoting peace and harmony, love among kith and kin. The book is worth-reading to ponder over the life-style
Mr. Pawan Dua is not only a good writer, philosopher but an excellent persons who always motivate everyone to remain happy and enjoy the life. He is the coolest, wise, and cheerful person of our family who is full of life. He is showing the path of happiness to all.. let’s celebrate the life together.. thank you bhaiya..❤️
I worked with Pawan ji, at Secure Meters and I found him very enthusiastic at all the time. Myself as well as my daughter read his book also.. and same attitude is reflecting in the book. Good Approch, requesting all book lovers to read the once, it’s different.
The journey between birth and death is just a fiction. Celebrating or In fact living now is only truth. The learning to readers are well explained in your book Pawan. We do hope the forthcoming write-ups will be touching another pain area of every individual.
Mr Dua has rightly emphasised to live in present movement.This relieves one from guilt of past & anxiety of future.Great work
Only Great person can become great author. He is practical person. Mr. Pawan Dua is a celebrity Authority. His word is changing world. He created great book celebration Forever.
Thank you sir.
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