Category: Books
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Hindsight Paperback Now Available In India
Hindisght is now available as a paperback in India. Below are the links to order. Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/fTyPlkS NotionPress: https://notionpress.com/read/hindsight
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Cover Reveal: Hindsight
A picture is worth a thousand words or so they say. While we wait for my book to be available, here is the gorgeous cover designed by Santhya Shenbagam. Blurb: Set in the 90s India, Hindsight traces the life of Sandhya, Surya, and Aditya at college until a horrific incident tears them asunder. Fourteen years…
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A Tribe To See Me Through
I woke up this morning to an email outlining how many unsold copies (approx 1700) of my book Why is my Hair Curly? is languishing in a warehouse somewhere. The notion of time ticking while Westland wraps up its accounting and brings its life as an entity to a close, lit a fire in me.…
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Defining Success: Yet
I was logged in to work, early for a Friday morning that is, when Laddu, also logged into her school iPad in the same room, walked up to me. Her face was serious. I removed my ear phones and gave her my full attention preparing myself to send a note to her teacher whatever the…
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Book Review: Good Talk by Mira Jacob
Mira Jacob’s book Good Talk kept popping on my social media feed since it came out in March 2019. The term graphic memoir was strange enough for me to put away looking for it. Then, this week, while searching for something unrelated, this book popped up again. On impulse I bought it. I finished the…
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Announcement: Book Deal!
Miracles happen. They do! In July this year, a publisher from Red Panda, a children’s imprint of Westland Publishing (an Amazon company) in India reached out through my blog. She asked if I was interested in writing children’s fiction. I hemmed and hawed and eventually jumped at the opportunity. For someone who primarily writes creative…
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Book Review: A Fractured Life by Shabnam Samuel
I stumbled onto Shabnam Samuel by chance. A common FB group, a random conversation and then an intentional phone call had me ordering her debut novel on Amazon. I thought of it as good karma. Something I did for a fellow writer. Admittedly, the blurb of her book intrigued me and I would have looked…
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I Am Strength Anthology
A week after I got back from the Yale Writers’ Workshop, I meticulously went through notes I had made and feedback from my peers. I decided to focus on a piece I had written on motherhood called Motherhood, Cleaved. This essay was born out of the realization that the kind of love I feel toward…
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Book Review: When Dimple Met Rishi By Sandhya Menon
I kept running into people on twitter raving about this book. They described it as cute and gushed over it. I am sucker for rom-coms especially the cutesy ones so I looked for it in my library and placed a hold. I finished the book in a couple of hours. It is an easy read,…