Anu Lal's Blog, page 21
November 1, 2014
GROUP-WORK AND PERSONAL PROBLEMS: Is Group Activity the New ‘Socialist State’?
<!--[if gte mso 9]></div>
October 31, 2014
#Celebrateblogging: THE LESSONS-2
<!--[if gte mso 9]></div>
October 30, 2014
#Celebrateblogging: THE LESSONS THAT CAME BY
“I had made my inner vow to teach selfrather than group reliance.” –Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, I Can See Clearly Now
Image Courtesy: Indu Manoj © all rights reservedOneearly September evening I received a call from Blogadda.com. Blogadda is an Indian organization who successfully monetized blogging by providing a network for individual bloggers in order to share their blog posts. Blogadda also provides opportunity for bloggers to receive free books from new and successful Indian authors for book revi...
Image Courtesy: Indu Manoj © all rights reservedOneearly September evening I received a call from Blogadda.com. Blogadda is an Indian organization who successfully monetized blogging by providing a network for individual bloggers in order to share their blog posts. Blogadda also provides opportunity for bloggers to receive free books from new and successful Indian authors for book revi...
October 8, 2014
FINAL CHAPTER: The Circle of Deceit
Chapter 30Kalakaar Colony.
Read the previous post here
The door to Room Number 202 opened and Tara entered. Shekhar’s face reflected an emotion that Jennifer could not comprehend. There was a sense of suspense with the silence in the room then. No one spoke. Everyone waited for a response from the other, expecting something unexpected. It was the same room where Aryan questioned Cyrus. It was the same room where Shekhar had heard that heart-breaking truth about Roohi’s kidnapper. Aryan’s...
Read the previous post here
The door to Room Number 202 opened and Tara entered. Shekhar’s face reflected an emotion that Jennifer could not comprehend. There was a sense of suspense with the silence in the room then. No one spoke. Everyone waited for a response from the other, expecting something unexpected. It was the same room where Aryan questioned Cyrus. It was the same room where Shekhar had heard that heart-breaking truth about Roohi’s kidnapper. Aryan’s...
September 21, 2014
THE CIRCLE OF DECEIT
Kalakar Colony Round-2 Chapter 11Roohi and Krishna<!--[if gte mso 9]></div>
September 13, 2014
ROOHI AND JENNIFER: The Lost Girl
<!--[if gte mso 9]></div>
September 2, 2014
ASHWIN SANGHI, CHETAN BHAGAT, and PRIVATE INDIA
Bestselling author of Private India, Krishna Key and Chnakya’s Chant, Ashwin Sanghi had recently complemented one of my book reviews. 
Private India is the first novel co-authored by Ashwin Sanghi. His previous three novels were written solo and were sold in large numbers in the Indian-English fiction market. Ashwin Sanghi is acclaimed to be one of the fastest selling authors in India. In the post-Chetan Bhagat era, only a few writers made authentic records as successful authors in English, although the market is teeming with English books by Indian authors. Ashwin Sanghi’s name appears among the very few successful writers.
Indian writings in English had always been an academic business, ever since that book by Rushdie that won him a Booker. Many Indian authors brought home the Booker Prize from that day onwards. But a real bestseller was born in India with the arrival of an investment banker on the page. He wrote a new chapter in selling books and writing stories that catch the minds of non-academic readers.
Image Courtesy: Ashwin SanghiChetan Bhagat books were sold like hot snacks in a wayside eatery during evenings. This made English books in India appealing. And this was crucial, because in India, a number of languages are spoken and written. With the new wave of popularity enjoyed by English books written by Indian authors, a new era was born. Indian English fiction and Indian English writing in general were thus inaugurated in the public sphere. People became more open to books written in English by Indian authors.
Although several writers attempted to break into the contemporary romance genre, success came only to some of those books. One writer took a different route from them all. He took to historical fiction, the same genre that Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh and others have kept solely academic. This writer’s creative voice wasn’t so elitist, like his predecessors. He wrote books that were modeled closely on the American author Dan Brown’s bestsellers.
The result of this non-academic reversal in writing was the success of his three books, The Rozabal Line, Chanakya's Chant and The Krishna Key. All three books (not accidently), were modeled on Dan Brown’s narrative style. Although there are criticisms that these books, as many others, were nothing else but low quality literary misadventures, the bright side is quite luring.
Image Courtesy: Chetan Bhagat
The increased interest in English books written by Indian authors in India has given many publishing giants a new hope to sustain their businesses. Many of them have already established their permanent domains in the Indian market. The recent success of You Should Know How I Feel… , a collection of contemporary romance, inaugurated the arrival of the publishing and retailer giant Amazon in India. You Should Know How I Feel… is published by BW Publishing, an India-based publisher, in collaboration with Amazon’s print-on-demand company Createspace.
Trough Ashwin Sanghi’s successful collaboration with James Patterson, the NY Times Bestselling author, Private India created a new chapter of thrillers in India. The lukewarm and tiring panorama of thrillers written by Indian authors has taken a step backward with the publication of this new book.
Image Courtesy: James Patterson
Ashwin Sanghi’s contributions in Private India seem slender, within the mythical motifs that appear (sometimes, with no purpose other than to show his mythological awareness) in the book. Private India follows a typical James Patterson plot and story structure. Short chapters, unexpected acts of crime and petty homicide fetish stand out as original Patterson techniques. They appear in Private India too, in wholesale. Perhaps, this is what happens when one co-authors with another successful author, whose success is relatively more glossy that yours.
@Anulalindia many thanks for the great review. Glad you liked Private India. :) @JP_BooksReplied Ashwin Sanghi to my book-review tweet that involved his latest thriller, Private India , in collaboration with the American Bestselling author James Patterson. This book review has been one of the top discussions in Linkedin too.
— Ashwin Sanghi (@ashwinsanghi) August 29, 2014
Private India is the first novel co-authored by Ashwin Sanghi. His previous three novels were written solo and were sold in large numbers in the Indian-English fiction market. Ashwin Sanghi is acclaimed to be one of the fastest selling authors in India. In the post-Chetan Bhagat era, only a few writers made authentic records as successful authors in English, although the market is teeming with English books by Indian authors. Ashwin Sanghi’s name appears among the very few successful writers.
Indian writings in English had always been an academic business, ever since that book by Rushdie that won him a Booker. Many Indian authors brought home the Booker Prize from that day onwards. But a real bestseller was born in India with the arrival of an investment banker on the page. He wrote a new chapter in selling books and writing stories that catch the minds of non-academic readers.
Image Courtesy: Ashwin SanghiChetan Bhagat books were sold like hot snacks in a wayside eatery during evenings. This made English books in India appealing. And this was crucial, because in India, a number of languages are spoken and written. With the new wave of popularity enjoyed by English books written by Indian authors, a new era was born. Indian English fiction and Indian English writing in general were thus inaugurated in the public sphere. People became more open to books written in English by Indian authors. Although several writers attempted to break into the contemporary romance genre, success came only to some of those books. One writer took a different route from them all. He took to historical fiction, the same genre that Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh and others have kept solely academic. This writer’s creative voice wasn’t so elitist, like his predecessors. He wrote books that were modeled closely on the American author Dan Brown’s bestsellers.
The result of this non-academic reversal in writing was the success of his three books, The Rozabal Line, Chanakya's Chant and The Krishna Key. All three books (not accidently), were modeled on Dan Brown’s narrative style. Although there are criticisms that these books, as many others, were nothing else but low quality literary misadventures, the bright side is quite luring.
Image Courtesy: Chetan BhagatThe increased interest in English books written by Indian authors in India has given many publishing giants a new hope to sustain their businesses. Many of them have already established their permanent domains in the Indian market. The recent success of You Should Know How I Feel… , a collection of contemporary romance, inaugurated the arrival of the publishing and retailer giant Amazon in India. You Should Know How I Feel… is published by BW Publishing, an India-based publisher, in collaboration with Amazon’s print-on-demand company Createspace.
Trough Ashwin Sanghi’s successful collaboration with James Patterson, the NY Times Bestselling author, Private India created a new chapter of thrillers in India. The lukewarm and tiring panorama of thrillers written by Indian authors has taken a step backward with the publication of this new book.
Image Courtesy: James Patterson
Ashwin Sanghi’s contributions in Private India seem slender, within the mythical motifs that appear (sometimes, with no purpose other than to show his mythological awareness) in the book. Private India follows a typical James Patterson plot and story structure. Short chapters, unexpected acts of crime and petty homicide fetish stand out as original Patterson techniques. They appear in Private India too, in wholesale. Perhaps, this is what happens when one co-authors with another successful author, whose success is relatively more glossy that yours.
August 28, 2014
PRIVATE INDIA: A One and Only Avatar
The location is Mumbai, home to Bollywood and business capital of India. The branch of a very influential international detective agency has taken up a case. The agency is not Interpol. The agency is not Scotland Yard. The agency you have come across here is Private, India bureau. A reluctant alcoholic named Santosh Wagh heads Private India. Inside his head, a demonic nightmare keeps playing, in which he and his family—wife Isha and son Pravir—are taking a trip to a hill station. On their ret...
August 24, 2014
INDIAN SUMMER: Stories Behind Histories
Image Courtesy: Alex von TunzelmannI doubt reading history can make an individual wiser. I am certain that it can shock us. This shock wave takes birth at the crack between what is the perceived history and the stories behind that history. Often the stories behind history are beyond reconciliation resulting in mass violence and murders. Salman Rushdie tried that once and he faced the fatwa. Dan Brown tried to decipher Da Vinci in his rather playful quirk called The Da Vinci Code. And this boo...
August 18, 2014
THE JOURNEY HOME: A Review
“Matthew Thomas interview: 'I learned how to be a person writing this thing'A schoolteacher by day, the 'new Jonathan Franzen' crafted his million-dollar debut novel by night at his kitchen table.” [Courtesy: the guardian.com]The above mentioned is the title of one of the article that appeared in The Guardian newspaper’s online edition. An author read it and immediately thought to himself; ‘hmm…that author is older than I am.’ [Meaning, I could still be writing my mega-novel by the time I am...
