• The Kapil Sharma Show

    Theatre and drama have the unique ability to connect people with the ideas of the times without requiring them to read or think too much on their own. The Kapil Sharma Show adds…

  • My Next Book, My Feelings

    Now, when one of my new books is about to be published, I have mixed feelings. There was a time when the new book would keep me on a razor’s edge. There was…

  • Day of the Book Release

    I have mixed feelings on the day one of my novels is released. Of course, the sense of having delivered it to the world is somewhat like a mother must feel when she…

  • Reading a Novel

    Novels don’t only tell stories; they open up discourses. They enclose an interchange of ideas through conversations or narratives with inbuilt ideas. A novel can be described as a discursive and linguistic unit…

  • The Improbable in Fiction

    In fiction, the virtually impossible can happen; call it co-incidence, magic, or sheer chance. The important thing is that fiction breeds these less likely occurrences, which feed the curious reader’s mind. It is…

  • Writing a Story

    The writer’s mind undergoes transformation at several stages of the crafting of a story. The process of writing it can be compared to the four seasons that most of us experience. The first…

  • Rebirth & Fiction Writing

    The idea of rebirth always fascinates me. To me it makes a lot of sense. To examine this idea it is first necessary to consider what birth itself is and why we are…

  • Literary Fiction & London

    Literary Fiction and Space:  London in Dickens and Malkani The human experience captured in a literary novel is made up of time and space because we are always in a particular phase of…

  • Literary Fiction with a Purpose

    If Shakespeare wrote plays and poems that became the bases of literary fiction, he also some times wrote plays with a purpose. The best example of such plays is the group of plays…