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NAW Interview with Debashish Irengbam

Debashish Irengbam

Debashish Irengbam is a Mumbai based screenwriter. He has written scripts for shows that were aired on MTV and Star TV. Me, Mia, Multiple is his debut work. NAW- Tell us about your book, Me, Mia and Multiple. How did…

NAW Interview with Vikram Balagopal

Vikram Balagopal

Vikram Balagopal, an author, a filmmaker, a published poet, illustrator and cartoonist in magazines, was born in 1984 in the town of Quilon in Kerala, India. Coming from a family of serious readers, Vikram got introduced to reading early in…

‘Un Answered’ by N S Abhayakumar

Why is it glowing, like candles over the grave of dreams , the radiance of affection. Why is it flowing on; like a veil over the face of fate , the river of voids. Why is it lingering on even…

‘Soporific’ by Rony Nair

Rony Nair

In your town again, the landmarks look newer; Shinier, this used to be my town too.   it no longer is.   school holidays bring kids in droves into nests and town centres with play areas that compensate in the…

‘The Plummet’ by Namrata

Namrata

Short Story ID- 2/2015 The shrill screams from the room next door woke Ruma from her sleep. Since the time she had come here sleep had always evaded her, right now she held on tightly to whatever little of sleep…

NAW Interview with Julia Regal Singh

Julia Regal Singh

Julia Regul Singh worked as an urban planner and urban designer in Germany and the US before turning to writing. She holds a Bachelor of Geography from the University of Bayreuth (Germany) and has a master’s degree in Urban Planning…

NAW Interview with Tanmay Dubey

Tanmay Dubey

An IT professional based in Gurgaon, Tanmay Dubey is a voracious reader and an avid storyteller. In a career spanning more than ten years, he has been fascinated by several aspects of the corporate world and this book is a…

‘The Worship room’ by Afshan Shafi

Afshan Shafi

I saw what green walls, they had cocooned you in, with the refrain of your rosaries, brighter and brighter each evening, hemic knots cored and plucked into half moons, gold -sheaved narcissi starred with cochineal, the lilt of your white…

‘The two petals of selfhood’ by Afshan Shafi

Afshan Shafi

  They justified this war. they justified the fathomless amongst paper tulips and stars made of glue, ink and real hugs. Beyond this the world utters one silver sentence an hour. Beyond the woodcuts of us, the catty and lurid…