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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Shakespeare and Jane Austen
Shakespeare is now generally acknowledged as a writer with several facets. By all standards he seems to be a leader among writers. Harold Bloom has considered him to be at the centre of…
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Literary Fiction & Shakespeare: A Scholarly Approach
I’ve written much on the nature of literary writing in my blog posts thus far but from now on for a few turns I will discuss two major issues: (a) What is Literary…
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What makes a Writer?
Writing comes when sources of fulfillment are blocked No one quite contented and happy would write anything to please people, particularly something about injustice, misfortune or suffering. The contented person would write only…
