Tag Archives: Bangalore Writers Workshop

Priya Doraswamy on Publishing a Book in India

Posted on June 4, 2014 by

Priya Doraswamy founded Lotus Lane Literary in New Jersey in May, 2013. She has been an agent for a little over five years and has sold books globally. Priya represents bestselling and award winning adult fiction and non-fiction authors. Prior … Continue reading →

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Lavanya Sankaran’s advice to aspiring writers

Posted on March 11, 2014 by

Lavanya Sankaran is the author of the celebrated short story collection The Red Carpet, which spent two years on the best-seller lists and collected praise world-wide. Her debut novel The Hope Factory, just released, has been selected by Amazon UK … Continue reading →

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BWW Star: Open face sandwiches

Posted on March 8, 2014 by

R came back home late from work one day to find his wife drawing a penis on a piece of paper. For days after, he thought about it the way one would toss salad around on a plate. K had … Continue reading →

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BWW Star: Dilemma

Posted on February 25, 2014 by

Rakesh had been in the city for a while and had been Bangalored over the years. He wondered about how Bangalore had changed over the last decade. A beep on his computer drew his attention back to the code that … Continue reading →

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Ashok Rajagopalan on Finding my voice while writing stories for children

Posted on February 21, 2014 by

There is a simple logic behind writing well. It evolves from two premises that I, well, evolved. Premise 1: Art is something that moves you. If it doesn’t move you, personally it doesn’t mean Art to you. Premise 2: A … Continue reading →

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Revathi Suresh on Young Adult Fiction in India

Posted on January 21, 2014 by

Revathi Suresh worked with EastWest Books, Chennai, and helped edit, along with a senior colleague, a book review magazine called Indian Review of Books. EWB also had an imprint called Manas which brought out both fiction and non-fiction. She has … Continue reading →

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BWW Star: The Wait

Posted on January 16, 2014 by

There are two others with me here. We don’t talk to each other, not sure if we can though, never tried it. There’s the old man who prefers the damp corner of the broken wall, he doesn’t talk much. Just … Continue reading →

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BWW Star: The Street

Posted on January 13, 2014 by

He tries, albeit unsuccessfully, to stifle the yawn that seems to rise out of nowhere from inside his body.  His head has been throbbing for the last five minutes, he hasn’t shaved or showered and there is a persistent itch … Continue reading →

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Shikha Malaviya on Geography of Tongues

Posted on January 3, 2014 by

Poet Shikha Malaviya, considers herself a morpher. She was born in the U.K. but grew up in the US and India. Raised in a family where books, good food, music, art and candid conversations always took center stage, it is … Continue reading →

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Jeet Thayil on Narcopolis and poetry

Posted on May 21, 2013 by

I met Jeet Thayil on a wonderfully nippy, December evening in Bangalore. I had read Narcopolis a month back and was desperately hoping he would win the Booker because it had been long since a book had thrilled me so … Continue reading →

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