Q+A 'WRITING FULFILS ME MOST'

Actor, director, painter and author Deepti Naval has mastered almost every medium she has ever dabbled in. At 70, she now shares glimpses of her childhood in a new memoir, A Country Called Childhood

- Karishma Upadhyay

Q. How did you arrive at the title of your book?

Childhood is like a place you've lived in. For me, Amritsar isn't a geographic location, as much as a period of time in my life. Early in the book, there's a sentence...the sights and smells from a country called childhood'. My working title was different, but my publishers loved the phrase.