Drunk and In Search of a Story: Sagarika Ghose’s The Gin Drinkers
This is another oldie – but I won’t claim it’s a goldie! – from my journalistic career. It appeared first in The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, and I recall hearing an anecdote about it subsequently from a Delhi journalist friend. At the launch of the novel in New Delhi, it seems someone, possibly Renuka Chatterjee [...]
Retelling the Ramayana: Author’s Note to the Indian edition
PS: Those of you who have the Penguin India editions of Prince of Ayodhya, Siege of Mithila, and/or Demons of Chitrakut, will find a few minor additions to this essay, especially in the last section “Maazi Naroti”. This revised version appears in Armies of Hanuman, due out in June 2005. As always, I can’t seem [...]
