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Nilanjan, congratulations on your first book ‘Bali and the Ocean of Milk’ and on such encouraging response from the readers.

What all research went in creating ‘Bali and the Ocean of the Milk’ and what has been the most interesting phase of this whole process starting from conception of the idea to having the first copy of your book in your hands?

This is not a research heavy book. It is essentially a work of imagination, not a retelling or strictly speaking not even a re-imagination but a new story…

Leela Gour Broome completely impressed me with her very first book – Flute In The Forest (reviewed here) and it was a dream come true when she contacted me after having read the review of the book here.

She gladly accepted the offer to be interviewed so that the readers get to know more about her and her experience of being an author.

Is the story of ‘Flute in the Forest’ purely fictional or is it inspired by some real life characters, incidents or experiences?

Flute in the Forest is…

1. How did you get into Writing?
I started writing when I was in college, My first short humorous piece was published on 9th Auggust 1988 in the ‘Indian Post’ newspaper, and I never looked back after that
2. Why this genre? Have you tried fiction ?
I have been a journalist and also an editor – I love meeting people. Writing non-fiction came naturally to me, and I honestly believe truth is stranger and more interesting than fiction. That said, someday I would like to write a screenplay for…

It was a pleasure to interview Amish Tripathi, the author of ‘The Immortals of Meluha’ (reviewed here), who seems to have aced the art of story telling and captivating the attention of the readers right from page one of his first book. The second book of the trilogy – ‘The Secret of Nagas’ is already in the bookstores.

‘The Immortals of Meluha’ is among the shortlisted books for Vodafone Crossword Awards 2010.

How did the plot originate? Was it an iterative process – finalizing the idea? Was it inspired by…

Anushka Ravishankar, a mathematics graduate and a software professional is a prolific children’s book writer now. She is lauded as India’s answer to Roald Dahl as she brilliantly excels in nonsense verse. She believes that children should read for fun rather than as learning exercise and hence her aim has been to entertain the children through her books. Surely her writings are devoured by kids as well as their parents. Having more than 17 books and 12 awards to her name, she is among the well known names in the…

Juggling between 26/11 attacks in Mumbai, the moments between Aparijita and Anirudha, A Dilli-Mumbai Love Story, as the name suggest, is a story about love, pride, and standing up for your love and those small things in love that you would love to live.
Anirudha Hirani falls in love with Aparijita Pinto at the first sight. Different religions. Different  background. Dissimilarities and more importantly the stark difference in their economic status. Yet, nothing deters Anirudha to chase his love and Aparita to accept it.
They fight all odds to keep…

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THE OTHER SIDE OF SILENCEVoices from the Partition of IndiaWritten by Urvashi ButaliaPublished by Penguin Books
Reviewed by sandhya.
Urvashi Butalia, the writer, has impressive credentials. Along with Ritu Menon, she set up Kali for Women, the first feminist press in India, in 1984, and later, Zubaan Books. Born to in Ambala, India, to parents who were refugees from West Punjab, now in Pakistan, she grew up hearing stories of  the Partition, which tore apart the Indian subcontinent at the time of its freedom from British rule.…

It is an honour to be interviewing Paul McDonnold, the author of ‘Economics of Ego Surplus’ (reviewed here), one of a very few books that impressed me in recent past. You can read more information about the author here. But one of his statements which I must reproduce here is – “In an age of sound bites, tweets, partisan rants and uninspiring vanilla content, quality writing is not dead. It simply stands out more”. I cannot agree more on this. There has been a deluge in the number of books…

It is a pleasure to be sharing with all the readers, an e-interview with Parul Sharma – the much acclaimed and appreciated author of ‘Bringing Up Vasu’(reviewed here) and ‘By the Water Cooler’ (reviewed here).

Do you think you were destined to be an author or did the writing happen by chance for you?

Well, I have always loved writing but the way things were going, it seemed unlikely that I would ever make a profession out of writing. I did the usual thing – studied Economic (not Literature) in…

I first heard of Hush it was after we started organising and talking about CSA. A friend mentioned that HUSH is a very hard-hitting book on CSA. I looked up the net and found out that it was a graphic novel. I haven’t read too many graphic novels before (infact I think this is the first one). I went to their website and it seemed pretty interesting. So we contacted them and asked them if they will send us a review copy. They were prompt and I personally met Pratheek…