CRAFTING HISTORICAL FICTION: THE CHALLENGE
Threading the needle… The starting point to writing historical fiction feels like entering a dark room from a brightly lit corridor. When the stark contrast in photons hits you, you first go blind as you move from your mundane life to
POETRY OR PROSE: What chooses the writer?
Let me be honest. That’s the whole point of writing, isn’t it? To speak your truth? So let me be honest. When I wrote my first collection of poems, Radha, there were those who asked, ‘Why bother? Who reads English poetry?’ And while
THE MAGIC OF MYTHOLOGY
In recent times, the tidal wave of interest in alternative mythology as a genre has become a publishing phenomenon in India. Thanks to the extraordinary success of authors such as Ashwin Sanghi, Arshia Sattar, Anand Neelakantan, Devdutt Pattnaik, Kavita Kane