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Debalina Haldar

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Debalina Haldar is an alumna of IIM Lucknow, class of 2015. Her collection of short stories, Wrinkles in Memory, was shortlisted for the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puruskar 2020.

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Rebecca Lloyd, World Fantasy Award nominee and winner of the New Fictions Prize 2016, speaks on Wrinkles in Memory

I came to know Debalina Haldar, the author of this book, when I was employed by Thames River Press, to be the developmental editor of her novel, The Female Ward. I had been involved with the publisher through my editing work with Indira Chandrasekhar on our anthology, Pangea, an Anthology of Stories from Around the Globe. Both of these books are now with Thames River Press’s sister imprint, Union Read more of this blog post »
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“I don't want a rainbow... Rainbows have too many colors and none of them receive the appreciation they deserve... I'd prefer a fading red or a striking golden, a shimmery silver or a sober blue... Ruling the sunset sky alone!”
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“Everything worth having comes with a trial worth withstanding”
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“History shows: Whenever people try to pull you down, you will reach peaks of success. You just need the ability to ignore.”
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“Everything worth having comes with a trial worth withstanding”
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“Ragging at its most harmless is embarrassing and silly, but at its worst, it attempts to prevent individual students from independent thinking, attempts, in fact, to eradicate freewill”
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“We enter the world with fists closed and when we leave, our hands are open. He said I should make full use of the time given to me for my life”
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“History shows: Whenever people try to pull you down, you will reach peaks of success. You just need the ability to ignore.”
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“I don't want a rainbow... Rainbows have too many colors and none of them receive the appreciation they deserve... I'd prefer a fading red or a striking golden, a shimmery silver or a sober blue... Ruling the sunset sky alone!”
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