It’s Children’s day, think about your kids minds.

Two interactions with little ones.

First little one was with her dad who was looking for a book on postcards (how to make ’em)

Hook the man up and ask the girl –

Do you want to want to be smart?

Happy Children’s Day

Dudism – This is not a book review.

The Bangalore Literature Festival happened last weekend and we were drawn to it for one reason only, they started representing Science Fiction. But this post is not about that, its about plain and simple Dudism.

Shakti Bhatt Foundation 2018 Shortlist.

In a world increasingly “broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls,” it’s unsurprising that this year’s Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize shortlist reflects the experience of the outsider, the one who does not fit because of sexuality, caste, class and gender and a hundred other real and imagined reasons.

This year’s judges, Githa Hariharan, Sampurna Chattarji and Raghu Karnad, will sift through some remarkable examples of such displacement.

Shakti Bhatt.

Book review “The way I see it: A Gauri Lankesh Reader, Edited by Chandan Gowda.

‘When I visited her at her house, two weeks before her death, I noticed the bushy plants in it had been cleared. Her mother had got them removed for fear of snakes. The snake threat was always known and present but Gauri didn’t seem to mind. She was now planning to grow vegetables in the newly cleared area.’