The guilt a mother faces after she admonishes her child expressed through poetry.
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Categories: Poetry
Aman Sethi’s ‘A Free Man’
Thoughts of a Solitary Man
They, the Poor
Horn OK Please!
Kartik Iyengar, author of ‘Horn OK Please’ – HOPping to Conclusions’, in addition to being a successful corporate professional, dabbles in a multitude of areas. He is an avid blogger, a self-proclaimed moron, an unlucky Las Vegas loser, a compulsive road-hog, a Red Bull addict and an adrenaline junkie who has tried everything from scuba diving to bungee jumping. A cockroach-loving heavy metal maniac, Kartik has thousands of hyper-active fans on his Facebook fan page, who live his journeys vicariously with him. His fans call themselves HOPpers. In fact, many of them have actually changed their middle name to include “Hopper” as a mark of belonging to this social-media cult. Want to have a good laugh and giggle a bit? Then all you got to do is to read this interview! And when you are done, you will realize that there’s a smile or a grin on your face! There’s lot of humour, a little bit of thought and tons of attitude waiting for you out there!
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Shiva in a New Light
Amish Tripathi is a 36 year old, IIM (Kolkata) educated boring banker turned happy author. His debut book, ‘The Immortals of Meluha’ (Book 1 of the Shiva Trilogy) has been an outstanding success and has topped bestseller charts. Encouraged by this, Amish has given up a 14-year-old career in financial services to focus on writing. He is passionate about history, mythology and philosophy. ‘The Secret of the Nagas’, the second book of the Shiva Trilogy is set for a mid-August 2011 release. Amish is presently working on the third book of the Shiva Trilogy, ‘The Oath of the Vayuputras’. In this interview, he demystifies everything about ‘The Immortals of Meluha’ – from how the idea was born to the actual writing to how he smartly marketed his book. And there’s more too. It’s an interview you can’t afford to miss!
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Life Is What You Make It!
Preeti Shenoy is the bestselling author of ‘Life is What you Make it’ and ’34 Bubble Gums and Candies’, both published by Srishti Publishers. Just as the tagline in her blog, ‘Just a Mother of Two’ goes, Preeti is an author, poet, artist and a mom! She gets talking about both her books, their roaring success, her blog and of course what she is most popular for among her readers, her thoughts on life!
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Discovering Saraswati Park
Anjali Joseph was born in Bombay in 1978. She studied English at Trinity College, Cambridge, and has taught English at the Sorbonne. More recently she has written for the Times of India in Bombay and been a Commissioning Editor for ELLE (India). She studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. ‘Saraswati Park’, published by Harper Collins in 2010 is her first novel. In 2011, Anjali won the Betty Trask Award and the Desmond Elliott Prize for her debut novel. Further, ‘Saraswati Park’ has been shortlisted for the Vodafone-Crossword Award for 2011 under the Fiction category. Anjali Joseph shares her thoughts on writing, her first book, the experience of writing it and of course, awards.
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Sakhi
I’m Very Snobbish about the Star-rating System!
Jai Arjun Singh is a freelance writer and journalist based in Delhi. He has written for Business Standard, The Hindu, Tehelka, The Sunday Guardian, Outlook and The Hindustan Times, among other publications. His book about the film ‘Jaane bhi do Yaaro’ was published by Harper Collins India in 2010. He has also edited an anthology of film writing, ‘The Popcorn Essayists: What Movies do to Writers’, for Tranquebar. In this interview, he gets talking about his thoughts on cinema, his blog and his books.
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Categories: Interviews