People stop you. They say don’t do it. It is impossible. You will fail. You will die. It is a suicide mission. Nobody says go and find out for yourself. People miss the whole bloody point. Better die trying than…
Vitasta Publishing to publish Once We Had Everything (Literature In Exile) edited by Arvind Gigoo, Siddhartha Gigoo and Adarsh Ajit Once We Had Everything (Literature In Exile) features essays, memoirs and short stories written by some prominent Kashmiri Pandit writers…
Siddhartha Gigoo has earlier written The Garden of Solitude and A Fistful of Earth and Other Stories. The latter was long listed for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award 2015. Siddhartha also co-edited A Long Dream of Home: The Persecution, Exodus and Exile of…
Mehr: A Love Story by Siddhartha Gigoo (Rs 295, 213pp) ABOUT THE BOOK ‘Thus, I begin, not at the beginning, but at the end when I had met her for the first time.’ Mehr, a Shia woman from Pakistan, falls in love…
Siddhartha Gigoo is the author of two books of fiction, Garden of Solitude (2011) and A Fistful of Earth and Other Stories (2015), which was longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award 2015. His short story The Umbrella…