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NAW Interview with Madhuri Iyer

Madhuri Iyer

Madhuri Iyer is a writer and artist currently based in Mumbai. She began her career in Mumbai as an advertising visualiser. Her latest published work is Manhattan Mango. NAW- Please give me your bio in brief highlighting your published works till…

NAW Interview with Janice Pariat

Jancie Pariat

Janice Pariat is the author of Boats on Land, which won the Crossword Book Award for Fiction and the Young Writers’ Award from the Sahitya Akademi in 2013. She writes cultural features for a wide number of magazines and edits…

NAW Interview with Paritosh Uttam

Paritosh Uttam

Paritosh Uttam is a software engineer by profession but has also forayed into literature. His novel ‘Dreams in Prussian Blue’ published by Penguin India was also adapted into a Malyalam film.  NAW-  How long have you been writing? What made…

NAW Interview with Ovidia Yu

Ovidia Yu

Ovidia Yu is one of Singapore’s best-known and most acclaimed writers. She has had more than thirty plays produced and is also the author of a number of mysteries that have been published in Singapore and India. NAW-  How long…

NAW Interview With Mik Everett

Mik Everett

Mik Everett is an American Regionalist author, editor, and mother who divides her time between Wichita, Kansas; Boulder, Colorado; and any one of several small towns in the canyons above Boulder which are too numerous to name. At any given…

NAW Interview With T.V. Paul

T V Paul

T.V. Paul is James McGill Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at McGill University, Montreal, and a leading scholar of international security, regional security, and South Asia. He was director (founding) of the McGill/University of Montreal Center…

NAW Interview with Tom Bale

Tom Bale

Tom Bale is a popular crime fiction writer based in England. He was born in Sussex and now pursues writing full time. He has written The Catch and Sins of The Father (published under David Harrison, his real name). Contact…

‘Crimson Cupidon’ by Aneesha Roy 

Aneesha Roy

There is no love. Just the illusion of love to be used and exhausted till the last dregs then trampled and smote with brickbats, thorns, whatever’s handy. The illusion simpers in the gutter Or an asphalt pavement Till it dries…

NAW Interview With Amandeep Sandhu

Aman

Amandeep Sandhu is the author of two novels, Roll of Honour and Sepia Leaves. He was born in Rourkela and has lived in Orissa, Uttrakhand, Punjab, Chattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka. He went to read English Literature at the University of Hyderabad…

NAW Interview with Lauren Oliver

Lauren Oliver

Lauren Oliver was born in Queens and raised in Westchester, New York. She went to read literature and philosophy at the University of Chicago, and then moved back to New York to attend NYU’s MFA program in creative writing. Since 2009,…

NAW Interview With Manu Ramesh

Manu Ramesh

Manu Ramesh grew up changing schools every few years as his dad was in a transferable job. Having completed his undergraduate degree in 2006 specializing in Mechanical Engineering, he worked at Dell Perot Systems as a software engineer for two years.…