This is the time of the year when I usually like to make a tentative list of books I plan to read in the coming year. So here are, in no particular order, the books on my reading list for 2023. My amazing friend Snehal Kulkarni had gifted me four books by noted...
Indica books is delighted to announce a two-day writer’s retreat on 18th-20th November 2022 for aspiring writers at our Indica- Rithambara Retreat, Bengaluru. This retreat is anchored by bestselling writer and screenwriter Mayur Didolkar. Mayur has published four...
Some of the most satisfying works of fiction often defy any attempt at categorization. These stories that tell the truth about us by telling us lies about people that never existed (Stephen King’s definition, not mine!) are as ambitious about the diverse categories of...
“We were used to partial stories” Nathaniel, the protagonist of Michael Ondaatje’s seventh novel ‘Warlight’, tells us in the opening pages of this remarkable novel that is part spy novel in the low-key John Le Carre tradition, part coming-of-age story in the post war...
Stephen King wrote in Danse Macabre that “the horror tale manages to consistently satisfy even when it’s only good. When it’s great, it can deliver a megaton of wallop that other forms of literature can rarely equal”. As a lifelong genre fan, I agree whole-heartedly....
