Author Archives: Prashansa

Interview with Pakistani Novelist and Translator Musharraf Ali Farooqi

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Prashansa

(This interview was conducted in the form of a Skype conversation in English and Hindustani; it was transcribed, translated and edited by the interviewer for publication in the Sunday Guardian.) Q. It took you 10 years to write your latest … Continue reading →

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The Literary Indian

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Prashansa

When writer-journalist Manu Joseph won The Hindu Fiction Award last year for his novel Serious Men he remarked half-jokingly, “In India, the novel is being received very well. As long as it doesn’t win the Booker… Most Indian books that have won … Continue reading →

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The Dot-Com Bookstore

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Prashansa

KD Singh has been a bookseller for 38 years. When you enter his bookstore – The Bookshop – located in the posh neighbourhood of Delhi’s Jorbagh, you will find him sitting contentedly at his desk, working. He won’t mind if … Continue reading →

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The Languishing Young Reader

Posted on July 16, 2011 by Prashansa

On my way back home from school in a dingy van, I would often take out a book, and start reading. The journey in the school van was like a vacuum — the only time when my mind was not … Continue reading →

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Why I read…

Posted on June 26, 2011 by Prashansa

Why I read… I have been buying books recklessly. I see a book I have heard about and pounce on it at the very sight of the paperback. I read a review and I think this might be the book … Continue reading →

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The Recovering Writer

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Prashansa

The Recovering Writer You have probably noticed, if you are one of the blessed souls who bother to read this dear, little blog regularly, that I haven’t written or posted anything in this space for over a month now. Yet, … Continue reading →

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Seasons

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Prashansa

Seasons If I were living in a cold Western country, I would have described the weather saying that the snow is finally melting and giving way to green after a long winter. Only if the transition of seasons was that apparent … Continue reading →

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Guardian Books Podcast: Life, Death and Literary Critics

Posted on February 5, 2011 by Prashansa

Guardian Books Podcast: Life, death and literary critics Listen to this week’s podcast about human obsession with immortality and the changing role of the critic in the era of social networking on my favourite newspaper, the Guardian‘s website (through which I … Continue reading →

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Jaipur Diaries- Listening to J.M. Coetzee

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Prashansa

Jaipur Diaries– The Old Woman and the Cats Listening to J.M. Coetzee at the Jaipur Literature Festival In an article in the Magazine Littéraire, French writer Véronique Ovaldé recounts the fifty hours she spent in the company of Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, who … Continue reading →

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Jaipur Diaries- The Jaipur Literature Festival 2011

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Prashansa

Jaipur Diaries The DSC Jaipur Literature Festival 2011 Last year in January, I sent Mayank Austen Soofi an e-mail when he had just returned from the Jaipur Literature Festival, “See you in Jaipur next year!” At that time I wasn’t … Continue reading →

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