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How Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi became an international bestselling author

by Chandu | Nov 15, 2021

(November 15, 2021) “People love people in such strange ways that you will need more than a lifetime to figure that one out,” writes Indian author Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi in The Flamingoes of Bombay. It’s the complexities of love and...

Sanjena Sathian: The Indian-American novelist redefining identity through her work

by Chandu | Oct 8, 2021

(October 8, 2021) What it means to be both Indian and American? An unnerving question that has kept a generation of Indian-American kids grappling with a feeling of otherness in a country they find at times hard to call home. Being divided between the expectation of...

How racism and alienation fueled British Indian writer Sunjeev Sahota to scale literary heights

by Chandu | Jul 28, 2021

(July 28, 9:50 am) “I’ve got more interested in the form, the artistry, and wanting something new – not just in my writing, but also when I’m reading. I get very bored when I read novels that have nothing new in them. So, that’s probably...