Category: Featured
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Bollywood is plot-bankrupt, while stories rot in bookstores
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For the past few years, my daughter and I have been going for movies almost every weekend. Apart from popcorn, pepsi and pizza, it is also our own little bonding time. We would intentionally choose a theatre reasonably far from home. The drive back home, the fight over the silly millennial songs vs Hindi music,…
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Research is only as good as the fiction you spin it into
Buy IN THE NAME OF GOD, my latest thriller: Click Here *** As it appeared in Mumbai Mirror *** Fiction writers are always advised to write what they know about. But what if you are tackling unfamiliar terrain? Ravi Subramanian has a few answers. Two years ago, on a rainy July afternoon, I stepped out…
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IN THE NAME OF GOD
For any author it is a moment of great pride to see his book out in print. I have had many of those moments. Despite such beingthe case, every time a book comes out, butterflies begin to fly in my belly. My heart begins to palpitate and I start biting my nails even more. The…
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Chetan Bhagat is not an idiot
Surprise is a small word. It didn’t surprise me when I read about Anvita Bajpai’s accusation of plagiarism and court case against Chetan Bhagat. It SHOCKED me. You could read about it here: Economic Times Article. My first instinct was, why didn’t Anvita Bajpai write to the publisher and the author asking them for a…
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Don’t lead a pack of sheep. Herd cats instead
“Don’t lead a pack of sheep. Herd cats instead.” When I first read this statement it took me a while to understand its true meaning. In modern-day corporate life, leaders often have the flexibility to pick their own teams. Most of them stumble at this roadblock. Mediocre managers don’t often realise the enormous ability this…
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Eight ‘not to be missed’ reads for children
At Enchantico, our endeavour has been to send out specially curated and carefully picked, age appropriate books for children in the age group 5-12. Here are the books that we had sent out with the March Enchantico Box. Click here to read about these eight books on Enchantico’s website. : https://www.enchantico.in/8-best-reads-for-march/
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e-books vs paper books
Here is a blog I wrote for www.enchantico.in ; India’s first book subscription box for kids. The eBooks vs Paper books fight has been going on for some time now. Unfortunately, I fail to understand what the row is about! To digress a little… Years ago, a long distance relationship would mean that…
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Weird things authors do…!
Having spent close to a decade in the publishing industry, I have been witness to a number of crazy things authors do (some of them, even I do). Authors are really crazy people. How else do you justify anyone sitting hours in front of a screen typing away? How else do you justify someone spending…
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There are many reasons why I write and ‘Money’ is not in the top 5.
This piece written by me was published first by Scroll.in on 29th August 2015. You could read the article on Scroll.in here : Click here Every time I log on to Facebook, I find a number of people either wanting to write a book, or desperately hunting for a publisher having written a book. There…
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Why commercial fiction writers should be wary of online book-buying
Every Sunday, my wife and I have a ritual where we visit a local book store in Mumbai. We browse, have coffee and chat with the staff. A few weeks ago we were at one of the Crossword stores when I became a spectator to a scene between a mother and her son. He had…
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