Category: General
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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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Why I counted my blessings and thanked God for 2016…
As I reflect on the year gone by, I wonder what makes a year a great year. What makes you feel satisfied with the year that is almost coming to an end? When I think about it, it strikes me that as parents of a girl who turned seventeen a week and half ago, our…
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Once Upon a time! What the Amazon acquisition of Westland says about our Publishing Industry…
Excitement of this kind is quite rare in the publishing industry. The last came a few years ago when Random House took over Penguin. And now this Amazon buyout of Westland has given the industry an interesting conversation beginner. Amazon had signaled their intent in February this year when they acquired minority stake in…
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Life Lessons: Be the average guy
A few days back I had a very interesting interaction with Rediff.com. It was a freewheeling chat on life and the lessons one can take away from ones own life – something which was of relevance to the younger generation. At the end of the discussion, Divya Nair from Rediff.com summarised it and put it…
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Five Stories that influenced my life (from my personal diary)
Here are five stories that influenced me and changed my life. (This is a reproduction of an article that appeared in the Corporate Dossier supplement of Economic Times today) FIGHT YOUR OWN BATTLES. DON’T DEPEND ON OTHERS TO DO IT FOR YOU Many years back, a co-worker, known for his political manipulations, sent an offensive…
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Oh! What a Crush! – the story of my brief but intense love affair
Playing Candy Crush on the iPad was like experiencing ‘Vegas on Steroids’. I started playing Candy Crush some time in August last year. It was quite annoying to see posts about Candy Crush spamming my newsfeed. Just out of curiosity one day (August 10), I downloaded the free app on my iPad and started playing.…
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Stop the Hypocrisy. Penguin did the right thing
Too much is being made of the pulping of Wendy Doniger’s “The Hindus – An Alternative History.” I guess it all started with Arundhati Roy’s open letter to Penguin in the Times of India. Titled, “You must tell us what terrified you”, it launched a scathing attack into Penguins act of reaching an out of…
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Me, My books – a different side to my life
A few days back Kiran Manral, a close friend a fabulous author and a wonderful human being did a Q&A with me on her blog. I had reblogged her post yesterday. Here’s the link to it…http://bit.ly/1dnWSE6. Thanks Kiran for featuring me on your blog. As a part of the Q&A, Kiran had implored her readers…
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Literary Fiction or Commercial Fiction
Over the last few weeks as I have gone around promoting BANKERUPT, I have been asked many questions. Some interesting, some not so interesting. Some probing, some not so probing. Some embarrassing, some not so embarrassing. However there was one question, which kept cropping up every now and then. And that was about my views…
Ravi Subramanian 