Her opinion counts and she changes the game in her own distinctive style. For a long time now, her columns have been a strong commentary on the dominant issues of the day and ever since the satellite TV boom has happened, she has been a regular face on television panels during prime time news programmes.... Continue Reading →
It was only in my college days (five years back) that I came to know that Ruskin Bond was very much alive when I read in the papers that he had arrived in Chennai to interact with his readers. For me Ruskin Bond sounded like a writer of British India, someone like Rudyard Kipling, who... Continue Reading →
This interview with the noted writer Ashok Banker was published in Madras Plus, the Friday supplement of Economic Times Mahabharata has been hailed since time immemorial as the greatest story ever told. After his successful series on the Ramayana, Ashok Banker has returned with The Forest of Stories, his new series on the Mahabharata.How different... Continue Reading →
In the early days of my childhood, I depended solely on my mother for my quota of stories. She was the first story teller I knew. Though her knowledge of the epics was limited, she chipped in her own imaginary tales as she serialized the Ramayan while feeding me lunch everyday. My father once read... Continue Reading →
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