For 23-year-old Hyderabad based writer Kadali Sathyanarayana, writing has always been something more of a habit and a way to express. "Writing for me was almost like a medium to get things done. Whatever I could not speak out, I used to pen it down on paper and having grown up on a steady literary diet, I knew writing is what I want to do," says the author of a recently published book 'Letters to Love'.

What is interesting about her is that unlike most young age writers, Kadali writes exclusively in Telugu and all of her works have been in Telugu. This brings up the question as to why she chose a language that has a limited audience compared to English and how she chose it in the first place. To this, Kadali says, "All my life, the medium of education was English but everyone around me was Telugu. I somehow wanted to stick to my roots and also, there's a certain appeal to Telugu that one can't get in English. And about the language being accessible only to a limited audience, I don't feel limited at all because I only want to write for a Telugu audience. So it doesn't matter to me if English or any other language has a larger audience base."

One striking thing about Kadali's works are how they depict romance with feminist themes and doing this, hasn't been easy for her considering how judgemental a significant portion of our society is. But, according to her, judgement and comments don't stop her as she believes in her perspective also being known whether anyone agrees with it or not, saying, "Before I started writing and when I was consuming books extensively, I was not allowed to read certain books, like Chalam's books. Later when I started writing, I was reminded of that and I felt I should not worry about what people think about my works and just express myself because my angle also has to be out there."

According to her, there are several instances when people come to her and ask her why she is writing in the romance genre being a girl and she says the fact that people ask her this is exactly why she wants to write more. "The more people say things like that, the more I want to write because I am breaking gender stereotyping in a subtle manner. Even when one reads my works, it is evident there," shares Kadali, whose other works have been published many times in compilations.