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Manish Gaekwad
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I go for a walk. But I remember to return soon, or else all the wonderful thoughts and ideas run out by the time I am back home.
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The Last Courtesan : Writing My Mother's Memoir
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Lean Days
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Nautch Boy: A Memoir of My Life in the Kothas
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Dear Publishing Industry, It’s Me. The ‘Difficult’ Author Speaking
Why do you keep framing me like this?
Writers, like scientists, probe the mind’s defences, poking at psychological frameworks. People become lab rats — and the outcomes are heartbreakingly predictable.
Recently, I dangled a carrot before a copy-editor at a publishing house, referencing a past betrayal. She didn’t just nibble. She swallowed it whole.
This is the story of how a publisher stifle
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“At this juncture you must be wondering why this chapter reads like a clipped diary entry or even a concise narration of an unremarkable event. You should know that the harsh terrain rewards a short account where dialogue is kept to the minimum because words can hang mid-air.”
― Lean Days
― Lean Days
“A library without the distraction of a few handsome men and women is a library to avoid. If there is no respite from reading, to vacuously rest one’s tired eyes on them – what else is a library for, then?”
― Lean Days
― Lean Days
“A writer may never write if he cannot finish reading. A day of unusual curiousness, as I watch a woman labour over her notebook at a coffee shop across the sea. Because I am not writing, I am not to be taken aback if I accidentally discover that what she is writing is what I have been struggling to say. It is precisely through this kind of shuffle that we have had our stories told.”
― Lean Days
― Lean Days
“A library without the distraction of a few handsome men and women is a library to avoid. If there is no respite from reading, to vacuously rest one’s tired eyes on them — what else is a library for, then? I visit libraries for distractions, way past the history section, and into the poetry corner, where the gentle souls gather.”
― Lean Days
― Lean Days
