The announcement, which follows the release of the longlist last month, marks a major moment in the country’s literary calendar. The winners will be revealed on December 3 during a grand ceremony in Mumbai.
They don’t exist. They can’t love us back. And yet, fictional characters hold a strange power over us that real people often don’t. We laugh with them, cry for them, and fiercely defend them in online debates as if they were of flesh and blood.
Her marriage was in shambles. Shambles was not perhaps the perfect word to use, it was dying down, just like the hibiscus tree in the backyard...
They wouldn’t let her be. At times they would even stand in her way, blocking the corridor, swaying their hips or buttocks. How would a 56-year-old school teacher go to her class?
"Young people get their news - and their aspirations - from social media and television. Their desires are secular, but the frameworks into which these people are born are traditionalist."
Most creative writing courses will include advice on how to write fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
Though the book is meant for readers of all ages, it is bound to touch a chord with those in their early 30s and 40s, who nostalgically reminisce their school or college days.
The longlist features a graphic novel for the first time, four debut novelists and several previously nominated authors.
The truth may indeed be stranger than fiction, but it would call for more than the proverbial “pinch of salt”…
A novel that takes its readers into the abyss of poverty and patriarchy, thereby narrating the sordid uses of power…
