• New pub news!

    On the occasion of National Poetry Month 2026, poet Vidya Shankar and I bring to you, our book which has been almost two years in the making: Light and Line Drawings! This book is a dual-voice poetry collection exploring lives on completely different continents. Light and Line Drawings is a dialog between two poets who,…

  • Y: Yoda

    Talked about Darth Vader I have, earlier in the month. Another tribute to George Lucas’s story telling, it is.  pic: Wikepedia Yoda. The ultimate teacher, the synonym of ‘mentor’. I loved the portrayal of this all powerful Jedi. Small, large eared. Speaking in a Yodic syntax. He has trained many a Jedi before young Luke…

  • X: Xavier and the X-men

    X-men is a misnomer. This is because this team has real fierce women too. I know that writing about characters is probably a cop out but I love the concept that Stan Lee has produced. The idea has been used in several books and of course in movies like District 9 and Avatar. ‘Normal’ people…

  • W: Wang Lung, Madame Wu

    The Good Earth was not my first Pearl Buck novel. That was the Pavilion of Women. And that was another W. Wang Lung is a poor farmer, the protagonist of the Pulitzer prize winning book The Good Earth from Nobel laureate Pearl S. Buck. His roots are deep in Chinese traditions and he believes in…

  • V: Vianne Rocher

    Its the period of Lent. A period of penance. Of contemplation. Of self flagellation for the parish members of Fr. Francis Reynaud in the little town of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes. Into this little town arrives a Chocolatier with her little daughter and slowly turns the town around, one chocolate at a time. Vianne Rocher. The one with…