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Ankush Saikia

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Born
in Tezpur, India
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Crime, Mystery, Thriller

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Graham Greene, R.K. Narayan, V.S. Naipaul, John le Carre , Stephen Kin ...more

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Latest: "Rough Streets", set in 1980s Shillong, available as an e-book. Author of "Tears of the Dragon" (Speaking Tiger, February 2023), the fourth book in the Detective Arjun Arora series ("Dead Meat", 2015; "Remember Death", 2016; and "More Bodies Will Fall", 2018; all from Penguin Random House India), also the environmental novel "The Forest Beneath The Mountains" (Speaking Tiger, March 2021), the noir thriller "The Girl from Nongrim Hills" (Penguin India, 2013), the crime thriller "Red River, Blue Hills" (Westland Books, 2015), and "A Natural History of Violence", a crime novella set in Delhi (2024). I've worked as an editor in journalism and publishing in New Delhi for over a decade. Currently based in Shillong and Tezpur in North-East ...more

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Hi Ankush this is Vaibhav, I've recently heard about your books I've been reading books since junior high Now a days I am trying to write something its a political thriller actually, but honestly am just an undergrad student, I know nothing about writing a book or even story but I just wanted to write I am expecting if you can give me some suggestions would you help me please?
Ankush Saikia Hi Vaibhav, thanks for writing in. If you want to write a book, I expect you must have started writing in some form or the other. Keep writing, prefer…moreHi Vaibhav, thanks for writing in. If you want to write a book, I expect you must have started writing in some form or the other. Keep writing, preferably every day, and try and write a couple of short stories. Then try and come up with an outline for a novel, the more detailed the better, and work on that. Read as much as you can, especially thrillers and crime novels to see how they do it. Above all try and understand Indian society--travel, talk to people, read non-fiction. Knowing the society you live in well is the starting point of writing good fiction. Hope this helps!(less)
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A bit unusual question. Why your Protagonists drink that much ( Both Arjun Arora and Varun Mehta)? They dont let go any chance to let go a single drop of spirit. Any Particular reason for that. As its not that frequent with other sleuths/detectives/Main Protagonists which I have read till now.
Ankush Saikia sorry, saw this question only now! i guess because in my personal life my friends and most people i know are people who are fond of a drink. and of co…moresorry, saw this question only now! i guess because in my personal life my friends and most people i know are people who are fond of a drink. and of course, people in the North East like their drinks, and as both Arjun Arora and Varun Mehta grew up here, I guess they picked that up. the protagonist of my noir thriller "The Girl from Nongrim Hills", a guitarist from Shillong, also drinks. I think the stress and pressure a character is under in a crime/noir/thriller novel also makes it plausible for them to drink to handle the tension.

the next Arjun Arora book is out later this year, and in it he's cut back on his drinking!(less)
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“He had been in forests in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh... You could run into tigers and elephants in those places.

Here, in this dry, deciduous woodland, the most dangerous animal was man.”
― Ankush Saikia, Remember Death
tags: dystopia, human-nature, india, noir-thriller
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