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Nirmala Moorthy

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A free-lance journalist who has contributed feature articles, short stories and humor to English language newspapers in India, West Africa and ten Asian countries, Moorthy has published three novels--Maya, The Coiled Serpent, and The River Turned Red.
Her fourth work of fiction is a collection of short stories dealing with cultural interaction in countries across the world. The Twain Shall Meet is available in book stores, online, and on kindle, Ipad, Iphone and other reading devices from August 2015.
Amazon has approved a dramatic price reduction in the paperback edition of her first three novels from today

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Nirmala Moorthy Thinking back over my life I just can’t find anything mysterious that has happened to me. There have been tragic deaths and accidents that can, I supp…moreThinking back over my life I just can’t find anything mysterious that has happened to me. There have been tragic deaths and accidents that can, I suppose, happen in any family. But I have always used every real-life fact I can remember in my books. And some facts are difficult to forget. What mystery I have encountered I have been impelled to put into the books I have already published. In fiction it is always possible to arrive at a satisfying conclusion by means of intuited facts that cannot damage innocent parties because fiction is not really fact. Some of these mysterious happenings have been conveyed to me by friends or even newspaper reports in the various countries in which I have lived. Sometimes the questions of what, why, where, when and, most importantly, “who” have kept me awake at night. During my 30 odd years as first a reporter, and later as a feature writer and social commentator, I have often written them up. But they have always ended with a question mark. Some of these newspaper articles were published in 2015 in my fourth book “The Twain Shall Meet”. My favorite episode is a very short story titled “Hope For The Dead” that relates the “facts” of a really unbelievable episode. (less)
Nirmala Moorthy Actually i don't. I just keep busy with other activities that have nothing to do with writing. My writer's blocks occur usually when I reach an imposs…moreActually i don't. I just keep busy with other activities that have nothing to do with writing. My writer's blocks occur usually when I reach an impossible situation in my plot. And the answer of how to solve it invariably comes full-blown into my head--I'm a bit of an insomniac--in the middle of the night. In the morning I can't wait to put it into the computer before it fades away.(less)
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Maya

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The Coiled Serpent

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The River Turned Red

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Popular books about India--Tales of the Raj

Goodreads .com, the popular web site for book-addicts, has started a new book list to celebrate India’s Independence Day—Saturday, August 15, 2015. The list includes 95 fictional works written about British and post-British India in the order of their popularity. I'd like to thank all those who voted for my books. The address for the site:

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