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August 15, 2010
Skimmer
I was at the beach with a dear friend who is one of those modern, connected people who keeps his friends and family in touch with his every hour. As I sat in a tired heap on a beach chair after a dose of sun and deliciously warm gulf water, a pod of dolphins rolled by us, displaying their fins and re-energizing us all. I saw a black skimmer slice the water looking for food.
I am in a writing slump – this is not writer's block really, more of writer's laze. I thought a day at the beach would b...
August 8, 2010
July 30, 2010
About to write…
Saint George Island
So, even though I am not writing at the moment, I assure myself that I am collecting material. Looking, seeing, smelling, tasting, eating, listening – it's all data collection. It will, I tell myself, churn about, or maybe just sit there and ripen, and surely and quickly turn into a clever, or dour, or exciting, or, most hopefully, erotic stream of words that will get me to my deadline. Working/not working – toward a collection of erotic short stories. Erratic.
Kashmir...
July 25, 2010
Some "news and press".
http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/interview_i-could-write-only-after-mother-died_1414150
'I could write only after mother died'
Uttarika Kumaran
Sunday, July 25, 2010 3:46 IST
Daughter of the late Marathi writer Gauri Deshpande and grand-daughter of Sahitya Akademi award winner and anthropologist Irawati Karve, Urmilla Deshpande's second novel, Kashmir Blues hit book stores this month. But the 47-year old novelist has only just begun to shake off the demons that typically plague young writers...
July 24, 2010
Kashmir Blues acknowledgements
Kashmir Blues
When I received the pdfs from Westland/Tranquebar for Amazon uploads, the acknowledgements page was missing. This page is, of course, in the printed version of the book, but not in the digital format.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Without the dedicated reading of the first draft by my brother-in-law Paul Mitchell, and the detailed reading of the last by my editor Prita Maitra, and her (gentle) insistence on getting it right and not letting me get away with vagueness or laziness, this book...
July 11, 2010
July 6, 2010
July 5, 2010
Kashmir Blues
Kashmir Blues, my second book, is available in India. This one's for you, all you guys who will read it. I hope you enjoy it, and I hope some of you will share your thoughts with me. Because though writing is a pleasure and delight all its own, the feeling I get when you tell me what you got from the book, and what you didn't, and what you liked and what incensed you , and which people you hated, identified with, fell in love with – all this means you read it.
May 30, 2010
Break-in
My house was robbed last night. We were all out, when my son got back home he found the back door kicked in, and found some laptops, a game system, and an acoustic guitar missing. It was worth a lot, for the people whose stuff was stolen, it was probably worth much more for those who took it. It was an obviously amateur job – they took cables but not speakers, dropped the controller of the game system in the back yard, and left lots of fingerprints and a shoe print on the door for the...
May 25, 2010
Simple Life
A couple of weeks ago, I turned on my porch lights at sundown as I usually do. I noticed that the light on one side didn't come on. I assumed the bulb was fused, and went to take it out, when I saw that the light sconce was full of twigs and leaves. Over the next few days, a tiny brown bird was seen by everyone frantically flying back and forth with more twigs and leaves. I figured I could do without the porch light till she had moved out.
This week she is still frantically flying back and...
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