My book of short stories, The High Priestess Never Marries (HarperCollins India, 2016), was described by Richa Kaul Padte in The Establishment as “a tour de force of language, desire, and ancestral heartbeats”. It won a 2015-2016 South Asia Laadli Media & Advertising Award For Gender Sensitivity in the category of Best Book (Fiction), and was shortlisted for the 2016 Tata Literature Live! First Book Award (Fiction). You can get it now on Amazon.in and Amazon.com.
You can also find my picture book for children, The Ammuchi Puchi (Lantana Publishing, 2016), illustrated by Nerina Canzi, here. Nilanjana Roy’s blurb for the book says: “Heartwrenching and full of hope, The Ammuchi Puchi glows with magic and wisdom.”
My first book of poems was Witchcraft (Bullfighter Books, 2008). It was described by Ng Yi-Sheng in The Straits Times as ” sensuous and spiritual, delicate and dangerous and as full as the moon reflected in a knife”.
My column, “The Venus Flytrap”, appears in The New Indian Express.
I was specially commissioned to write and perform an original poem at the Commonwealth Day Observance at Westminister Abbey in 2015.
I’m currently working on a novel, Constellation of Scars, among other poetry, fiction and illustration projects. My next book of poems, The Altar of the Only World is forthcoming from HarperCollins India in 2017.
On this blog you’ll find links to my writing as it is published, unedited versions of my work that appears in newspapers and magazines… and nowhere near as much chaos, miscellany and whimsy as life actually contains. :) You can find some of that, though, on my Tumblr. I’m also on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
My condolences! Here’s hoping your book will find other ways of funding!
can you tell me what a ‘book budget’ means?
Ok Darling. Just relax, and don’t panic. You sound calm. So stay calm.
I have never met you but I have followed your beautiful presence for as long as I know it was out there in the world. And I am very sorry for this event, whetaver the reason. But you know there is so much praise for you in the world.
Why don’t you publish it yourself? Raise money from fans? There are alot of people waiting for this book. Don’t be a tease! :-)
San, you need money to publish a book. You need a budget.
Sharanya,
I had a weird dream a few days ago: I saw a printed copy of your book, but inside it were advertisments, like in our school year book. I wonder what that means…
this book will be published. i just now it
mico
Keep the faith, dear. One stumbling block does not a whole book unmake. I love how you are strong about it (“And that is okay.”); it’ll carry you through till the book is finally published.
*hugs*
*BIG HUG*