Yesterday I had an interview with the BBC for their India Business Report programme. They are doing a snippet on the English publishing industry in India. The reporter asked me the usual questions like what prompted me to give up a cushy job and take up writing? And did I find it difficult to get [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Interview with the BBC
Posted in Novel, Random thoughts, tagged BBC, fiction, India, India Business Report, non fiction, publishing, writing on January 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Choices, Choices
Posted in General Gyan, Novel, tagged Australian Open, blogging, book, characterisation, fiction, Novel, rewriting, writing on January 24, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I haven’t been blogging much. The reason is that I’m the middle of rewriting my second novel. And the Australian Open, of course. Actually I haven’t been on the Internet much. Well, hardly much. Only to the Australian Open site, to check scores and schedules. You see, I had written my novel but I [...]
Udaipur Files III
Posted in Travelogues, tagged India, Rajasthan, Road trip in India, road trip to Udaipur, sightseeing in Udaipur, Tourism in India, Udaipur on January 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Udaipur is a city of lakes. There are at least three major lakes – Pichhola, Fateh Sagar, Swaroop Sagar, and a minor one, Dudh Talai. Then there are others like Udai Sagar and Jasamand which are outside the city. Of these, the main lake is Pichhola, around which the old city is built. Try and [...]
Udaipur Files II
Posted in Travelogues, tagged cuisine, India, kumbhalgarh fort, Rajasthan, ranakpur jain temples, Road trip in India, sightseeing in Rajasthan, Tourism in India, Udaipur on January 7, 2009 | 8 Comments »
The next day, we left for Kumbhalgarh Fort and Ranakpur, both places worth seeing. We were late in leaving Mountainridge, disinclined as were to first, get up early and then hurry up a leisurely breakfast. I was enjoying my umpteenth cup of excellent coffee, outside in the crisp morning air and the gentle morning sun [...]
Udaipur Files – I
Posted in Experiences, Travelogues, tagged Experiences, India, Rajasthan, road trip to Udaipur, sightseeing in Udaipur, Udaipur on January 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
State – Rajasthan, region Mewar. Distance from Bombay – 770 km. Road – NH 8 from Bombay-Vapi-Valsad-Surat-Bharuch-Baroda-Ahmedabad-Udaipur Time Taken – 12 Hours with a one hour stopover. We started at four in the morning to beat the Bombay traffic and reached Sisarma (country roads, kuchcha dirt track for the last ten kms) at 4 p.m. [...]
New Year in Udaipur
Posted in General Gyan on January 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Happy New Year, everyone. I’m back after a holiday in Udaipur. And what glorious four days they were! Will write about it soon. Meanwhile, here are some pix.
When tall, suave, handsome Kaustav Kapoor walks into her office, ditzy private investigator Kasthuri (aka Katie) Kumar has anything but detection on her mind. He is, after all, a scion of Bollywood’s first family—perhaps he has a role for her? Perhaps she will, at last, get to sashay down the red carpet in a designer gown, with flash bulbs following her every move?
But Kapoor’s intentions are much more prosaic: he wishes Katie to trace the heroine of his new blockbuster (and, if Katie’s read the glossies correctly, his life) who is mysteriously AWOL. Despite her misgivings, Katie finds herself unable to refuse the task entrusted to her, and thereon follows a bewildering hunt for the film star across a trail of corpses.
And if that isn’t excitement enough, she has to contend with the maddening and mysterious, but, oh-so-hot, Tejas Deshpande.
The first in a brand new detective series.
IN BOOKSTORES NOW.
