Category: Conversations
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Garima Garg: Heavens and Earth
Garima is a Delhi-based journalist and author, with a Master’s in Journalism from Columbia University. She has worked with Hindustan Times and has written for publications like Scroll, Hindu Business Line, Outlook, The Juggernaut and others. She likes to write on taboo or obscure topics. ‘I feel like there are really interesting insights to be…
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My Life With Books: Dr Radhika Praveen
With a PhD in creative writing, Dr Praveen is based in Milton Keynes, in the UK, where she lives with her husband and two boys. She misses her life in India where she hopes to return to one day, with her family. She likes to think of her life as a book, with chapters for…
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In Conversation With Kiran Manral
Based in Mumbai, Kiran is a well-established author; her first book was published in 2011 and more than a dozen others (both fiction and non-fiction) have been published since then. Her short stories have been published in leading magazines and bestselling anthologies, her articles and columns have been published in leading newspapers and her books…
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Harshit Bhardwaj: “The author must come forward and become a brand”
A published author and a trained literary critic, Delhi-based Harshit is a brand marketing and content strategy expert who works with authors to help them promote their books. Harshit, who has a PG certificate in literary studies from the Liverpool Hope University in the UK, is also a publisher who wants his publishing house –…
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My Life With Books: Marco D’Souza
Based in Gurgaon, Marco is a career journalist who jumped to corporate communications and now works for Google. A consummate geek and a fan of eBooks and the Kindle Paperwhite, he loves rediscovering the wonders of life with his nine-year-old daughter. We talk to Marco about his love for reading and his favourite books and…
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Lipika Bhushan: ‘The Toughest Challenge Is To Manage Creativity’
An award-winning publishing professional, Lipika has worked as head of marketing at HarperCollins India, consulting head for Pan Macmillan/Picador India and led publicity for Juggernaut. With this rich work experience in publishing, she set up MarketMyBook in 2013. MarketMyBook handles publicity and digital marketing for writers and publishers and Lipika works closely with leading writers,…
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In Conversation with Murali Menon
Erudite and very well-read, Mumbai-based Murali is a senior journalist and has worked with leading magazines and newspapers for more than two decades. Murali is the author of The God Who Loved Motorbikes and currently works as Head of Content Strategy at Haymarket SAC Publishing. We had a brief opportunity to have a quick chat…
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My Life With Books: Dhirender Nirwani
Based in Goa, Dhirender is a former digital media specialist and was country manager at IBM. He now works at CraftGully, which he co-founded in 2012. Dhirender is an avid reader, with an eclectic range of interests. We talk to him about his favourite books, his take on video taking over the world and his…
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In Conversation With M Rajshekhar
With an MA from the University of Sussex, UK, Rajshekhar is a senior journalist who has, over the last 25 years, worked with Business Standard, BW Businessworld, The Economic Times and Scroll. He’s also been a consultant for The World Bank and a researcher for ITC Ltd. Rajshekhar is currently based in Bangalore, where he…