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Writing Life: Slicing and Dicing Writing
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Where I come to write life. Saturday, October 13, 2012. Slicing and Dicing Writing. First things first…I’m back baby! So, hey everyone. For how long am I back? I have no idea. I felt no urge to blog for months and then suddenly I wanted to blog again. Second, this might be due to my good friend Katie Hayoz’s new blog. She is a fantas…fab.err….totally fantabulous YA writer. See Katie, one adjective cannot contain you or your writing. Of course, the word genre has been applied to the written word before bu...
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Writing Life: Books by Indian Authors: A Tag
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Where I come to write life. Thursday, May 24, 2007. Books by Indian Authors: A Tag. I was tagged by Geets at auroragirl.blogspot.com. About books by Indian authors. So, here goes. The ones in bold are those I haven't read but am dying to:. 1 The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (interesting, well-wrriten and oddly familar of young grandchild living with grandparent, until I rememberd no.2 on my list). 4 By the River Pampa. 7The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (well, he's not Indian, he's Pakis...
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Writing Life: It is so good to be here...today
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Where I come to write life. Thursday, October 18, 2012. It is so good to be here.today. I used concepts that can be encapsulated in numbers: four seasons (fall, winter, spring, summer), the elements (earth, wind, fire, water) as writing prompts. Starting from the broad and drilling down helps in narrowing down to yourself. After all, a journal is a safe, exclusive place where the only person important is you. How do you spell, Fall? Her voice, still soft, was audible at last. I didn't know when I first s...
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Writing Life: Hold Half an Ounce in Your Hand
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Where I come to write life. Thursday, June 04, 2009. Hold Half an Ounce in Your Hand. What is the best way to rule? The British did it in India and every colonial power has used some variation of this effective ruling strategy. Every child's history book in India has the answer, and it routinely showed up in quizzes. A simple idea really. Divide up the populace into at least two groups. You don't care who's who, you just know you're superior to both of them. Then give one group just a. However, nowhere w...
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Writing Life: Short snippets of conversation with Anees Jung
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Where I come to write life. Friday, January 19, 2007. Short snippets of conversation with Anees Jung. So Anees Jung came to my book launch and actually bought a book and I signed it for her. Me signing a book for a famous author. A strange world indeed! After the launch when cocktails were flowing freely, she asked me, "kya piyogi. Whiskey chahiye? I am so not a whiskey person! As the evening came to a close she asked my my husband's name. I told her. You married a Hindu. Good for you. Good! If possible,...
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Writing Life: Mumps in the Time of Dussehra
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Where I come to write life. Monday, September 28, 2009. Mumps in the Time of Dussehra. The Ramayana, an ancient epic was written by the sage Valmiki and follows the various events in Rama's life. During the exile Sita was kidnapped by Ravana, the king of Lanka, setting in motion a war that was staggering in its magnitude. Helped by the monkey-god Hanuman and his army, Rama's troops built a bridge of rocks to cross over to the golden isle of Lanka. But that would be later. A few weeks after Dussehra will ...
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Writing Life: The Next Big Thing
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Where I come to write life. Monday, February 25, 2013. The Next Big Thing. My wonderful writer friend, Daniela Norris. So, here are my responses to ten questions about one of my works in progress ("one? Yep, because I got two. So there! What is the title of your book? I'm currently working on my first book-length non-fiction project tentatively titled. The Warrior Queens of India. It is part history, part memoir and travelogue. What genre does your book fall under? I decided then to combine them together...
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Banned Books Group: Announcement for 2010
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Friday, January 8, 2010. A new year, a new decade.and hopefully new things happening in this space. I plan to blog here more for one thing. Also, I was thinking since the actual, planned banned books group didn't pan out, this is what I want to do with my banned books blog: Reviews. That's right, we will review banned books. Who's we you ask? Well, anyone really. Even you. Do you want to review a banned book? Send it to me. I am pleased to announce that my friend Judy Bussey who blogs at Appalachian Roots.
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Banned Books Group: January 2010
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Friday, January 8, 2010. A new year, a new decade.and hopefully new things happening in this space. I plan to blog here more for one thing. Also, I was thinking since the actual, planned banned books group didn't pan out, this is what I want to do with my banned books blog: Reviews. That's right, we will review banned books. Who's we you ask? Well, anyone really. Even you. Do you want to review a banned book? Send it to me. I am pleased to announce that my friend Judy Bussey who blogs at Appalachian Roots.
