writing

Reading In English Consumed Me Like A Disease. Then I Returned To Hindi
While I read English fiction to become better at writing, the story-in-Hindi sucked me in, leaving no time to pay attention to specific phrases and sentences.
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Are Romance Novels Your Guilty Pleasure? They Shouldnt Be
Romance readers are often taught to internalise shame for wasting their time with frivolous books instead of reading something worthy.
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Jaipur Literature Festival 2020: 12 Sessions You Shouldn't Miss
Elizabeth Gilbert, Manoranjan Byapari, Lela Slimani, Madhur Jaffrey are just a few of the authors headlining panels this year.
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Can Single Women In Indian Books Live Happily Ever After?
While many books, films and TV shows look at singleness as a temporary state of being, a handful of Indian novels explore the lives of women who are not wives, girlfriends or mothers.
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Benyamin On Dissent, Democracy And Writing In An Age Of Fear
The award-winning writer on his newly translated Al-Arabian Novel Factory, the CAA protests in India and why writing is a political process.
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Depression Took Me Away From Writing, But I Found My Way Back
Writing is a part of me, like my relationships, like my therapeutic work. I am not always good at it. I am often frustrated by it. But it is one part of me being a person.
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Writing By Hand Is Difficult As An Adult, But There's Still A Magic To It
The process of putting down thoughts on paper has an effect that typing doesn't.
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To Fall In Love (With Yourself), You Need A Plunger, Not Plumber
Deborah Levy's living autobiographies not only explore what it means to be a woman writer but also the joys and pitfalls of being alone.
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'The Cat Who Solved Brexit' How Kids Are Writing About Britain Leaving The EU
Children are trying to help Mrs May make a deal when they're not writing about sloths, that is.
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10 Ways To Become A Better Writer
In his new book, writer Amitava Kumar outlines the 10 rules he asks his students to follow to write well.
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