In the old days, most creative outputs had gatekeepers. The people who evaluated what you wrote. Or the labels that checked if your music would work. Or the galleries who assessed your paintings. Much of their work was to work for the audience and curate something they thought would sell well and enable them to … Read more
“The other day I was watching Kal Ho Na Ho with my family again,” Jigneshbhai said when we met for coffee last weekend. That was an old movie. But Swami and I looked up as we had watched that many times over. “Do you remember that charged up scene where SRK reads out a letter … Read more
My notes and extracts from the book Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Set 1 reproduced in this blog post for your reading: I can neither be injured by any of them, for no one can fix on me what is ugly, nor can I be angry with my kinsman, nor hate him. For we are made … Read more
Swami told me and Jigneshbhai about his last apartment association meeting over coffee last weekend. “A lot of people complained about the stray dogs that made life difficult”, he said. “They claimed that they occupied parking lots in the basement, barked and ran after children,” he added. “Yes, that’s true, right?” Jigneshbhai poked. “Yes, they … Read more
Here is my written interview that International Book Promotion published recently. You may also read it here: IBP Interview Where are you from? I am from Bangalore India Why do you write? I write to entertain and to provoke thought What do you write about? I write short stories and am the creator of the characters Jigneshbhai and … Read more
It was exactly five years back that I started writing my first novel – on this day. Since then, I have stuck to writing as one of my primary preoccupations, resulting in publishing many more books. That doesn’t necessarily qualify me for advising anyone on writing. But at the very least, it qualifies me on … Read more
“When a piece of music is good, it gets a lot of claps,” Jigneshbhai said last weekend. At the cafe, the instrumental music of Ustad Zakir Hussain was being played. Swami and I were engrossed in listening to it. “When a piece of music is great, it gets silence,” Jigneshbhai added, and that struck us. … Read more
“Raichand posted a message in our group over the weekend and told us to be ready for an urgent meeting on Monday morning,” Swami reported to us last evening over coffee. One week into the new year and his holiday season mood seemed gone. “2025 Goals it said,” he said. “But we had no clue … Read more
Hundreds of books get published everyday. Maybe thousands. And most of them don’t sell more than ten copies. Some not even that many. Yet, no one who has ever written a book regrets that they wrote one. So what are the reasons to write a book? I came up with a few. Here is the … Read more