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Four works of fiction. Founder Editor at The Bombay Literary Magazine

Gurgaon, India

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Tanuj Solanki

1 month

'The Machine is Learning' is seeing a reissue after four years of its 1st pub - in paperback, with an all-new cover. To those who missed the novel in its first avatar: you must go for this paperback (this saw yet another round of proofing). To everyone else: make a fuss, na.

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3 years

There will be a video soon in which he will cry.

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3 years

The three stages 1. Your banknotes are invalid 2. Your Indianness is invalid 3. Your death is invalid

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5 years

I have been awarded the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar (English) for 2019. For my short story collection 'Diwali in Muzaffarnagar'. I miss my father today, for I can't help imagining how happy this would have made him.

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5 years

I don't talk about this enough: I run a small online litmag called 'The Bombay Literary Magazine'. Since June 2013. 39 issues & running. No sponsors, no payment, copyright yours. I read all incoming fiction. Acceptance rate ~5%

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9 months

Newspapers publishing fiction should be a thing. The Mint Fiction special.

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2 years

The novel is neither dead nor dying. It is the reader who is dying. The novel's been lonesome.

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9 months

Well, the new year's here and @bombaylitmag is OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS again. We pay + every submission is read with care. RT pls. Fiction & Poetry subs are capped at 400 each, so don't wait till the last day (Jan 31).

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The Bombay Literary Magazine is open for submissions! Fiction, Poetry, Translations, Visual Narratives

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2 years

So at IIM Ahmedabad, I have been selected for the Young Alumni Achiever Award 2022 in the 'Art, Entertainment, & Sports' category. I think I have got the award for Art. Nikita thinks it's for Entertainment. It's definitely not for Sports. Lovely feeling :)

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1 year

#ManjhisMayhem is on @TheJCBPrize longlist! I'm reminded of the impulses that led to this novel. I wanted to work some 'pulp' mandatories on Mumbai's belly, and I wanted to somehow create a tareeka for sharp English in a lacerating non-English world. I guess it's worked 😎

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3 years

Finished this one a couple of days back. It's been said before but I'll say it again: "A must read."

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3 years

Andere Tye withdrew from IPL and asked a simple question that every IPL player should: "How are franchises and companies, and even the govt, spending so much on the tournament when people are struggling to get into hospitals?"

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5 years

if you then you don't love don't deserve me at my me at my

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2 years

We're now reading for Issue 52! And I'm esp dying to read the awesome story you've been hiding in that final-final-final folder. (RT if you think litmags can save the world. This one has found a way to pay on honorarium, btw) @bombaylitmag

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2 years

Yaar New Yorker, ek article toh free mein padhne do please.

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1 year

I quit my job last month. A few months before quitting, this Hindi poem had found its way out of me.

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1 year

That Sara Rai is Premchand's grand-daughter does have its pull. But this memoir (or collection of essays?) has literary worth that does much more than satisfy our curiosity about the family that the writer belongs to.

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2 years

Quietly confident that half a dozen UK publishers will query me about overseas rights and all that, given my novel 'The Machine is Learning' finds a place in this list. 😂 RT for good luck (mine) and do please read all these books

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Top 10 stories of modern India | Aravind Jayan

From hi-tech executives to Adivasis defending their tribal lands, the best Indian fiction portrays the extraordinary diversity of a changing country

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10 months

Delighted to learn that 'Requiem in Raga Janki' has won the Sahitya Akademi Award. I read the novel in 2019 and wrote a note about it on FB (in next tweet). I had called it "easily among the best Indian novels in this century" and had hoped it'd continue to interest award juries

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3 years

THE BOMBAY LITERARY MAGAZINE is 50 issues old today! 8 years. 61 short stories. 99 selections of poems.

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2 years

We go again! Accept/reject notes are being sent out for Issue 52, which will be out soon. @bombaylitmag is now open for submissions for Issue 53! Spread the word :-)

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2 years

Thrilled to share Manjhi's Mayhem will be in stores Nov 15 💥 Preorder link awaits action 😀 RTs, QTs must ❤️ MM is a pulpy, sexy, hardboiled, noirish, glass-shatter of a novel. Hopefully you'll have a blast reading. I sure did while writing! Preorder:

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3 years

This wee novel might become a movie. Delighted! with @kan_writersside

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3 years

Happy to report that nearly 3 years of crime-novel immersion is now nearing the 'business' end. Also, it's me going back to my first editor, with not a small amount of happiness. @kan_writersside @sorcerical

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2 years

'Tomb of Sand' has a chapter in which a group of authors of partition literature are dismayed by all the pomp and show at Wagah-Atari. Intezar Hussain was one of them. #tombofsand reminded me of his 'Basti', which had been on my TBR for long. Much recommended!

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5 years

With Hindutva here to reside, I think today is a good day to share this again. "I Had A Muslim Friend Once," fiction from India about a fraught friendship across religious lines, by @tanujsolanki via @CatapultStory

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2 years

I asked people to share their fav reads of 2022 on Instagram stories. And this book by Tove Ditlevsen tr. Michael Favala Goldman was mentioned by thrice! Started reading today and, my god, these stories are so beautiful.

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4 years

'The Machine is Learning' in #JCBPrize longlist! Readers are vowing to read all 10 novels. Count me in, I say :) Chart below hints an order of reading. Keen to see what the counts are on Oct 1 when the shortlist is announced. Retweet? Make the prize really work :)

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I have long maintained that the main problem is that publishing is not Capitalist-y enough. It revels in a sense of aristocracy, which reflects in its editorial decision-making, its awkward claims at both culture and commerce, and in its private ownership.

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New trophy in da house

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5 months

Accha ji?

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2 years

"Often... what we call the city's underbelly is actually its working-class belly. The bulge in the main. Full of strivers, full of migrants."

‘Read with an intent to learn writing. Write fast. Find three honest readers’: Author Tanuj Solanki

‘I don’t find any god-given contradiction between commercially successful writing and quote unquote good literature. I just write what I want to.’

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2 years

#TombofSand : There are several elements in the novel that I found to be astonishing, extraordinary, out of this world. Most of all, though, it was the play of narrative voices and the (seemingly aimless) freedom they operate with.

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5 months

A book finds its readers.

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6 months

Issue 57 of @bombaylitmag is now up on our website

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11 days

Good piece in The Hindu, but sadly misses the point that to talk of the English short story in India over the last decade and a half is to talk of the work of the Indian online literary magazine - the work of Out of Print, TBLM, Hammock, Gulmohar Quarterly et al.

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4 years

Someone optioned a short story of mine for cinematic adaptation. The option price for that one short story exceeds total advance for writing three books (one of which includes that one story). Mazaak hai duniya.

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Tanuj Solanki

4 years

My total advances for the three books I've published is less than 1,00,000. I'm like the DEFINITION of an also-ran. Also possibly the worst contemporary writer around. Sorry for bringing this up. I saw people sharing their advances so I thought I might try.

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2 years

Should have been a Booker contender this year.

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2 years

Just finished reading Vineet Gill's 'Here and Hereafter: Nirmal Verma's Life in Literature'. I started it only last night, went to bed reluctantly, and picked it up as soon as I could this morning. It's a book by a critical, curious reader. And it's absolutely, stunningly good.

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Not proposing a grand unified theory here, but something writers once found useful. (And, yes, I'm nearing semi-pro on Canva)

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3 years

A Draupadi novel in which she falls in love with a Hastinapur spy and plans to murder her most boring husband, Yudhishthir.

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1 year

Finished yesterday. It's my second Ernaux. And, once again, apart from the 'story' at hand, the question of "how does experience become literature?" is one of the chief concerns.

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6 months

Vaguely remember that when I started my career in 2010 household savings used to be ~12% of GDP. And people used to take pride in saying Indians like to save, aren't like Americans etc. Now household savings are 5% of GDP and household debt is 40% of GDP. Vikas max.

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2 years

@bombaylitmag is now open for submissions for Issue 54, due in April. Jan 31 is the last day for this window. All submissions are carefully read. Your publication history has no bearing on the process. Also, a modestly paying market.

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3 years

My novel 'The Machine is Learning' has young love, ok sex, anti-capitalist attitudes, a chapter all in private msgs, and 2 long emails (personal & professional) If you can't get your hands on the latest Rooney, there is this option. Available for half its list price on Amazon😆

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2 years

In case all the Chat GPT and Bard talk makes you wonder if there's been a contemporary Indian novel about AI eating up jobs, here...

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10 months

Issue 56 of @bombaylitmag is now live. There were ~850 submissions across categories. All were read and discussed. Some debated. We bring you here the 29 selections, incl the @deodarprize winning story by Srividya Tadepalli

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2 years

Very encouraging reviews of #ManjhisMayhem in Frontline and The Hindu have hit, like, within 40 minutes of each other, so naturally I am all 'Kya baat hai, Solanki' with myself.

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11 months

Two-page spread in Mint on Abraham Verghese. "Memories of Kerala." All very good; very impressive. Thought I'll remind everyone of Anees Salim, who hasn't been on Oprah yet and doesn't headline litfests but writes novels based in Kerala.

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2 years

I loved Ranbir Sidhu's 'Dark Star', an excellent 'death-bed' novel which -- through long sentences expertly threading in recurring motifs -- continuously expands and contracts its scope, maintaining a delightful liquid aspect in form and content

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2 years

Really excited (and thoda nervous) about the session with #GeetanjaliShree and @shreedaisy at @JaipurLitFest

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2 years

My story in @AlephBookCo 's 'A Case of Indian Marvels' is now on @scroll_in :) It's one of my best stories (I think). Please to read / RT / make it the most well-known story in the world leading to total global domination.

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‘The Issue’: Read Tanuj Solanki’s short fiction from a new anthology featuring young Indian writers

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2 years

There are 4 Indian novels in English - Imported Indian novel - Exportable Indian novel - In-exportable Indian novel (this exists) - Indian novel in translation First 2 and last 2 have affinities with each other, but all 4 together are difficult to reconcile as one body.

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1 year

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3 years

Reading period for next issue of TBLM is now open (till Feb 28). Supported by a generous grant by 'The Kolam Collective', TBLM is now a paying market. Note new web address and subs page, and please spread the word. :)

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1 year

When you wake up at 5 to write and accidentally read a royalty-statement email

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5 years

Cutout from the back cover of my novel "The Machine is Learning" | A poem titled "I Work in Insurance"

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1 year

Today's the last day to submit your work for consideration in Issue 55 of @bombaylitmag Fiction, Poetry, Translations, Visual Narratives We read every sub carefully. Acceptance in the 1.5%-3% range Paying market: 5,000 INR (~60 USD)

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From @AsiaSpeaks list of fiction mentees for 2024, I noted that Eshna Sharma had published with @bombaylitmag in Issue 55, Aug 2023. 'Second Place' had us fiction editors riveted. 'Like Sally Rooney in India, or... maybe not,' I'd thought. Here:

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Second Place - The Bombay Literary Magazine | TBLM

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2 years

I'm one-third in in Jerry Pinto's 'The Education of Yuri' and the feeling that I'm reading a classic has gripped me totally. It's a wonderful novel, and I am certain it will only get better from here (though that seems impossible).

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2 years

Took a course called Lab for Entrepreneurial Motivation (LEM) in IIMA 2nd year. By Prof Sunil Handa. Prof was super. Even the then-cynical me was inspired at times. Last night he sent me a pic of 'The Machine is Learning,' said he was reading it. It felt like I got an A.

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1 year

Congratulations to the JCB Prize shortlisted authors and translators! Apni race yahin tak. Manjhi's already caught up in part two's twin mysteries 😀

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10 months

Wife's reading this one and has the best words to say about it, so I'm tempted muchly to go for it next.

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1 year

I guess Shrikant Verma's 'Magadh' is alluring for a translator not because of the complexity of the original but because of its simplicity and sparseness. There is most definitely a premium on precision; every micro-decision can have a significant impact.

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3 years

They had Chetan Bhagat and Amish and they were unviable.

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3 years

Reading the third one in this book of interlinked stories. So well done. In a measured, the-details-are-the-story way. I'll be reading whatever Sonal Kohli writes. Note to publishers: find a way to publish more short-story collections. Note to prizes: Don't be so novel-novel!

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2 years

300+ fiction submissions for the December issue of @bombaylitmag ⚡ Thanks for the enthusiasm! Notifications regd subs will go out in November. We open for submissions again in December.

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2 years

Enjoyed Ankush Saikia's 'Tears of the Dragon', 4th in the #ArjunArora series. Like all good Nordic crime novels, Saikia's novel wasn't in a hurry to get anywhere. I found it at par with works by Mankell, Indridason et al.

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1 year

There is a sequence here, set inside a secondary-school classroom, in which two teachers talk of monuments and history while a third interrupts with grisly events from the day's newspaper. Kaafi mazedaar. News interrupting History, literally.

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2 months

Wilson Kateel's political poetry, in Deepa Ganesh's translation. Issue 58 of The Bombay Literary Magazine

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3 years

Diwali in Muzaffarnagar - now in Telugu. Translated by Jwalitha Denchanala Jwalitha

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Venkat Sid

3 years

Extremely happy to bring Kendra Sahitya Academy award winning short story collection - Diwali In Muzaffarnagar in to Telugu by Jwalitha Denchanala Jwalitha . Thank you Mallikarjun V. for helping in editing this book. Our sincer thanks to Tanuj Solanki and HarperCollins India

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5 months

The word(s) 'chiming' / 'chimed' should be banned in fiction in India, just as 'petrichor' should be banned in poetry in India.

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2 years

Bcs I'm asked this often: the job isn't actually in conflict with writing, it's negative inheritance (in financial terms). That makes the job a forever war, and mandates that the writing projects don't get too ambitious (bcs the job must be done well).

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Struggling authors know writing is a rich person’s hobby | Letters

Letters: Stephen Carver, Guinevere Glasfurd, Brian Needham and Jo McMillan respond to Joanne Harris’s article about horribly low pay in the publishing world

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2 years

Wrote 176 words today. Fiction. First words in 47 days. I'm cool.

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4 years

Well, I got a special mention. I'm going to be happy tonight.

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Tanuj Solanki, ‘Appropriation’ (Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize 2020/21, Special Mentions)

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2 years

Tomb of Sand written about in NYT. Lovely! That it has drawn attention to literatures in Indian languages is quite possibly true.

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2 years

Just done with the copy-edit round on 'Manjhi's Mayhem'. It's due November 2022 and holy shit I think I did well. Reserve some of your books budget, please. Especially if the only thing you like more than noir is discussing what kind of story is (or isn't) noir. #pulpmax

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2 years

Less than midway in... They must absolutely pick this up for an adaptation. The scope of the story is grand. 1930s India. Gandhians. Revolutionaries. Village feuds. Murders. Sabotage. Kala Paani. Rich-people's Bombay... And I imagine there is much more to come.

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Just day 2 of the window and we are already over 100 submissions each for Fiction and Poetry (excluding translations). CAP IS 400! Do the finessing NOW and send your work. We pay an honorarium of 5,000 rupees per published work. Acceptance rate 1-2.5%

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Chuffed to have a story in this anthology, ed. Tarun K. Saint. My story, 'The Desire of the Detective' is about a detective deep in anomie, even villainy. "In life there is no audience, and finding the murderer is a predominantly bureaucratic exercise."

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MURDER. MYSTERY. MAYHEM. Discover the first-ever anthology of Indian detective fiction!

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3 years

JLF was fun. My first time there. I grew somewhat tired of most debut novelists mentioning >=6 yrs as the time they spent on writing their book. 'This isn't an achievement. This must terrify you.' - I wanted to tell them.

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3 years

A big thanks and shout out to @Hashestweets , who in his time as Fiction Editor of @thecaravanindia published early-stage, no-book-yet writers. Examples include @manu99335836 , @sonalkoh , myself, and I'm sure others.

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1 month

Real issue with an Indian Bookstagrammer revealed to have used ChatGPT to write a ChatGPT-quality Goodreads review is not of their ethics in generating text through prompts but whether or not they fed the review PDF to the algorithm -- and what that means for the author's IP.

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8 months

Yesterday, I read in Mint a full-pager by Sayantan Bera: 'The Long Wait for India's First Tech Unicorn' Today I read in The Hindu a full-pager by Abhinay Deshpande about farmer suicides in Marathwada: 'Ploughing Through the Pain'

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1 year

I was the writer among the awardees, so I'd to go in prepared. Hope it makes for a good read

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1 year

Kaafi excitement

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2 years

रेत समाधि के साथ कोई एक क़िताब और लें, तब माने जाएंगे पाठक आप।

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2 years

बुकर प्राइज मिलते ही ‘रेत-समाधि’ की मांग बढ़ी, 5 दिन में 35,000 किताबों की बिक्री 'रेत-समाधि' यहाँ से प्राप्त करें : या हमें व्हाट्सएप करें : 931139773 @TheBookerPrizes @shreedaisy #Geetanjalishree #Rajkamalbooks

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2 months

Issue 58 of @bombaylitmag is live on Independence Day. It's absolutely amazing.

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TBLM is open for submissions again @bombaylitmag

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Fiction by #GeetanjaliShree tr. Prachi Sharma, SM Ashraf tr. Maaz Bin Bilal, Bikram Sharma, Jerry Pyrtuh, and more... Essays by Arundhati Subramaniam and Gautam Bhatia Poems by Onyekachi Iloh, Nadia Arioli, and more... Issue 54 of TBLM is here!

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4 years

My total advances for the three books I've published is less than 1,00,000. I'm like the DEFINITION of an also-ran. Also possibly the worst contemporary writer around. Sorry for bringing this up. I saw people sharing their advances so I thought I might try.

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Tanuj Solanki

3 years

@MananKapo Might have called it djinn.

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Tanuj Solanki

2 years

First thing I read this morning, by Anil Menon, awesome writer and boss at TBLM :)

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4 years

Yeah, sure, make a complaint about my novel and tag me. Like I'm your customer service executive.

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4 years

An essay by yours truly, about reading and writing, and the ever-changing connections b/w the two (for me). Original title: *A Raking Glance*

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Tanuj Solanki

5 years

I have written 2,600 words of fiction today. Standing ovation, please.

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Tanuj Solanki

1 year

Midway. And I have just finished a 25-page chapter that's probably the best dramatic sequence I have ever read: manages to head hop b/w 9 povs over a long, political conversation and ends with a bang. Mind is blown. Imma sleep now before this keeps me up all night.

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4 years

Normal writer | Writer asked to smile

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4 months

No saffron in the attire today so I put 'em in a saffron box.

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