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  • Traditional vs Self

    I should have said self first. Because traditionals started as self. Only, they forgot that. I read that about 130 million books have been published to date. Correct me, somebody. 129,864,880 total books according to Google books as taken from https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/85305/how-many-books-have-ever-been-published. That is still far short of the total population of the world at 7.9…

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  • Literary agents in India

    This breed is so rare you have to catch hold of a bunch and stare through a microscope to find at least one good one. Mostly you will fail. As I said earlier the traditional publishing industry in India is so high brow that many do not even respond with a rejection mail. Believe it…

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  • Maybe non-genre writing is dull.

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  • The Dead Man

    “I sat down near her, inhaling the aroma of the tea and the more subtle aroma of my friend. Yes, she did have some features more appropriate to angels than corpses.” This is how the protagonist describes his old girl friend in my novel With Darkness came Death  . He is devoid of emotions, the normal…

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  • Publishing Woes

    The problem a novice faces in the publishing industry is that nothing carries as much weight as a well-known name. But you need the publishing industry to gain that name.

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  • The Conflict of Karna

    The Conflict of Karna

    The Mahabharata war is over and millions lie dead in the battlefield of Kurukshetra. As the cremation function ends, Kunti the mother of the King, Yudhishtir, shocks everyone by her announcement that Karna is her son. But was he?

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  • Again returning to those hardy friends who have read my novel The Village of Shadows: https://notionpress.com/read/the-village-of-shadows Some have asked me about the mysterious and secretive Munshi. He is an old man who has inhabited the village for as long as any one could remember. How he got the name Munshi meaning a scholar is also…

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