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Locked inside the house for more than a month now, it’s the birds, the trees, the changing seasons, and some…
I write because I need to express this. This restlessness, hunger, ambition, joy, grief, sustenance, existential angst I’m feeling.
Almost 150 years ago, Anandi, the childless mother, birthed the movement for the emancipation of Indian women.
“I wrote the book because as a political journalist it is my duty to write as truthfully as I can about what is considered the first draft of history,” says Tavleen Singh.
We have to break down the gender norms that say sports are a male-only domain and girls are not capable of competing. In this interview Shapley tells you to look for the right signs.
Even Michelle Obama recalls how she’d get mad at Barack for always finding time to work out when she didn’t have time to get her hair in place.
In the time of social distancing and a pandemic taking over our our world, it really does feel like we are living in a dystopia.
“Truth is stranger than fiction, so I did not have too much grey area.”
Good fiction can get your heart beating and is a strong sign that it will be selected. Whereas, in non-fiction, topicality, what people are having conversations about, new voices and filling gaps in the genre is taken into consideration.
Rather than agonising over “writer’s block,” maybe we can accept that we aren’t blocked at all, and that resting might just be part of our process.
“What you will get is her saga of how it all began for her, how she dazzled audiences down south both as a child star and leading lady. Besides the performer, you also get glimpses of the person behind it.” – Satyarth Nayak
Sudha Murthy told Big B that she chose to become an engineer in 1968 and her family members were not supportive of her choice. They believed that nobody would marry her in the community if she pursued engineering.
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