On a recent visit to Hyderabad, spending time at the airport, chanced upon Indian authors and picked up some books out of which two ‘The Young Turks’ & ‘Delhi Durbar’ by Krishna Pratap Singh; The Betelnut Killers by Manisha Lakhe; The Game Changers by Fake IPL player.
In terms of grading, the books are no literary marvels, however most of them are less than Rs. 300/- so good for a one time read, the ones by Krishna Pratap Singh were a bit better.
They are well written, the characters being brought alive & you can recognize the tongue in cheek references to the past & current crop of politicians as well as the incidences referred to. They lighten your mind and the author manages to entertain the masses.
The Betelnut Killers by Manisha Lakhe is a mish mash of American Born Confused Desi with good etched characters which entertains, with the dark shadow of the characters you can almost identify with some relatives:). Personally thought it could have been a bit shorter, but a read for Airport/flight and works well.
The Game Changer is just a rehash of last year’s blog, but shows how Perception is different from reality. Better books than this have sunk without a trace whilst this is supposed selling well.
It is good to see that there are numerous Indian writers coming up and writing over a plethora of topics. Now only if enough Indian readers read:)
I write, review, rant, rave, on a variety of personal things. Call it Mindcasting. The written word has been my long time friend – jotting down thoughts based on what I read, heard, saw or recording my own experiences for later reference.
And I would be glad if you would review my lackadaisical attempt at Novel writing for NaNoWriMo too! e-book is available at http://bit.ly/SudhuNovel
Did so, and found it a very nice attempt (just my opinion) maybe the critics may have something different to say.
Thank you very much, Sir! I’m glad you took out time to give it a read! 🙂
Hi
I wonder if this might interest your readers?
Aspiring writers from India are being invited to enter a monthly short story competition that is aimed at writers across the planet.
The Global Short Story Competition is being run by Certys Limited, of Darlington, County Durham, England, a company which already has extensive experience in running such competitions in the UK.
Previous competitions in which it was involved attracted writers from Asia, Europe, Australia and the United States as well as aspiring authors all across the UK and Ireland.
Now the organisers hope that Indian writers will enter at http://www.globalshortstories.net or go to their free social networking site for authors at http://www.globalwriters.net
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Hello, this is an old post so I’m not sure if you’re reading fiction anymore… but I’d like if you tried my action-thriller HAUNTED…
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