What Makes Before We Were Heroes a Compelling Memoir
While many stories about firefighting focus on dramatic rescues and public recognition, Before We Were Heroes: Southern Fires takes readers in a different direction.
You Can't Control What People Think About You. So Stop Trying
What if freedom starts when you stop trying to control what people think of you? Learn to let go, set boundaries and finally live from within.
An Authors View
Sometimes the biggest transformation begins with three words: “I did it.”
How Good is the Indian Muse?
The problem is writing has come to be regarded as a means to acquire name and fame, if not money, and it does not matter as long as the writer is in the news, never mind whether someone really comes to read to enjoy or tends to be provoked by the book. Unfortunately for literature, the greater rewards of writing lost their relevance and the lesser benefits came to mean everything. Till this is understood, unkind cuts would continue to be inflicted in the arena of Indian writing. That’s for sure
Back to Square One on the Writing Board
However, as it seemed all was over bar sighing of the genuine writers, in came the internet with a formidable e-publishing space for their works as if to free the literature from the publishers’ prejudicial editorial grip and to directly deliver their e-books into the readers’ digital laps to sort them out for themselves.
On Writing ‘n the Writers
And those who treat writing as a vehicle of visibility would be incapable of experiencing the joy of the journey. In the end though, were they to come into spotlight, they might well gloat in the limelight though without experiencing the real thrill of letters. Even in case such won’t make it to the post; their pain cannot be intense for they wouldn’t have felt the joy of writing either.
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My ‘Novel’ Account of Human Possibility
Who would have thought that life held such literary possibilities in English language for a rustic Telugu lad in rural Andhra even in post-colonial India? The possibilities of life are indeed novel, and seemingly my life has crystallized itself in my body of work before death could dissipate it.
Mystery and Murder, Vintage Style
A vintage mystery, no forensics, no computers, just intuition and hard work to solve the crime with. In such a modern world these old school mysteries are the kind that can revive adventure and excitement, bringing back more of the mystery in mysteries.