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(This should actually be titled “Lekhana: A Literary Weekend – bits of Day One”, but that looks weird.) The events started at 5 pm, but I walked in at 6 (or so), thus missing the inauguration and the recitations. I … Continue reading →

So the Bangalore Lit Fest has been in the works for a while now, and finally the schedules are out, the logo is done, there are handy links I can handily link you to the website, which among other things, … Continue reading →

  Click here to see the original post, which also lists the winners for music and photography. CREATIVE WRITING IN KANNADA (one award, Rs 25,000) (no. of applications: 89) The three jurors were: Vivek Shanbhag (fiction writer and editor of … Continue reading →

  Minal Hajratwala is in Bangalore for a few weeks – we mostly know her as the editor for Queer Ink‘s forthcoming 2012 Queer Ink Anthology (also here). I cannot currently remember who took dreadful advantage of whom, but Vinay (the guy … Continue reading →

Spin Control is the second novel in Chris Moriarty’s SPIN series. I read and loved Spin State, but I hesitated on this second novel. Spin State was a great read, but it was bogged down with explaining the dense technology … Continue reading →

I was a bit leery of today’s event – for one thing, the book in question has a giant cricket ball on the cover, with a batsman silhouetted against it mid-stroke. I am one of those unfortunate bigots who not … Continue reading →

Spin State (2003) is the first in Chris Moriarty’s SPIN series, and it was a finalist for quite a few awards (winning none). The SPIN series is set in a far future where Earth has suffered ecological decay to the … Continue reading →

Before I begin, here: I wouldn’t have known about this if I hadn’t gone to yesterday’s Good As You meeting, where we met Suzana Tratnik and Brane Mozetič. We gathered that Tratnik and Mozetič were in the country to meet Mamta … Continue reading →

Sampurna Chattarji and Samhita Arni read out extracts from – wait, let’s start over. Sampurna Chattarji read out poems from her latest collections, Absent Muses. I have bought said collection, and liked large portions of it, and so I link … Continue reading →