In town to promote her book, Kamla says, “Rumi was known more as a poet and less as a writer. He dealt with all the aspects of life, not just the ascetic aspect. His manner of story-telling was in the old-style. I have simplified it to make it more accessible to the modern reader.” These days, Rumi is getting increasingly popular in the Western countries as well, and Kamla feels that “books such as these are reminders that we all operate from a central ego system which makes us view the world in our very own way.” When asked about how much her own experience in life had contributed in her writing, she smiles, "There are many strands in a story like the strand of our spiritual journey, our career strand and biographical strand. In my case, the career strand took precedence over the biographical strand.”

Her last book was Ganesha Goes to Lunch, a vivid collection of stories from the Hindu epics of Ramayana and Mahabharata. She plans to complete her trilogy of books on the spiritual aspect of different religions by writing her next book on the Sikh Sakhis. “I wanted to write books on different religions to show the unity behind them,” says Kamla adding that Gurbani was an inspiration for the book on Rumi’s Sufi tales. On the wide appeal of Sufism among the people she feels, “sufism resonates with the heart. It is a bridge between the Islamic and the non-Islamic world.”