Category Archives: Guest post

BY Vani IN Guest post

This Diwali, I’ll gift dal. Thanks to Mr Jaitley [DailyO]

“For whoever started this stupid custom of exchanging gifts!” my aunt said as we did the rounds of local stores looking for Diwali gifts. “Thirty five...

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Can Salman Rushdie help: What about writers who can’t return awards? [DailyO]

If only I had an award to return! Being a fledgling writer, I felt a compelling need to join the cause for “free speech”, but I...

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BY Vani IN Guest post

How to write a rom-com in a recession [Scroll]

I didn’t start out to write a comedy, though I’ve a flair for it being Punjabi, the most rumbustious of the entire lot. My first novel,...

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Writing for an International Audience [Huffington Post]

I know that sounds easy. Not so easy when you read this. I am an Indian and I don’t know what image that conjures up in...

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