Mohit Parikh's Blog, page 4

Reading to restore sanity

- Read 'Real India' by Srinath Perur. 'Real India' is the penultimate essay of his excellent debut book in which he travels with SRISTI and NIF crew on a Shodh Yatra through 7 villages of Madhya Pradesh. The piece is just as lovely as the others.
I wish the book wouldn't end. There is so much to learn about writing from his non-fiction. I admire his thoroughness. I admire his even tone. The subtle, intelligent humor - I wish I had the courage to execute that.
Would love to write a review of the...

Dropping 'Greed'

- One of my friends who is running a successful startup, he was in some trouble last year. All sorts of opportunities were coming to him to grow, to earn. But if you stray away from your vision and mission, you could be all over the place. You could end up losing direction and energy. Which is kind of what was happening to him. He shared his troubles with another businessman. The much-older-to-him businessman had gone through a similar phase and he said, at some point, one just has to dr...

Orwell's description of a novelist

- I just read this post by Tim Lott on the Guardian. He couldn't be more correct. Orwell's description of the writers “All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon which one can neither resist nor understand" I find accurate too.   Gotta find a solution...

In Pictures: The Uncensored Talk at LNMIIT, Jaipur

The lovely, unforgettable Toto Awards Night (in pictures)

Shortlisted for Toto Awards

Feels good to be short listed for the Toto Awards. Nay, feels delightful!

Announcement here: http://totofundsthearts.blogspot.in/2014/12/shortlist-for-toto-awards-for-creative_10.html

My best wishes to the three other contestants.

An Interactive Session at Bangalore Writer's Workshop

Two months ago I was invited to have an interaction with BWW's current batch of enrolled fellow writers. I was a bit tipsy and so I think I spoke a lot (and I don't remember what). But the lovely folks had this to say of the evening, "Why do we write? What do we do when we read? Why do we write what we write? How to read better? What can we do to write more? And various such thought provoking questions. Unanimously BWW agrees that Mohit Parikh is a wonderful human being first so it's only nat...

A Review of ‘Manan’ in TBLM, by Mihir Vatsa

To Start With,


He closes his eyes and finds today’s date floating towards him. Shimmering in the darkness, swiveling— like the text on the Windows 95 screensaver. It seeps in through his forehead and gets absorbed. 23-04-98 is now a part of him. Today’s date, a Saturday, when the first sign of what he so eagerly awaited has appeared. The day, while bathing, he has noticed a hair on his balls, and all his life’s problems are in the past.
Thus begins Mohit Parikh’s debut novel, Manan, which tells...

An excellent analysis of Manan

An analysis by a reader who goes by pen-name PuzhudhiLink to the original article here: https://www.notehub.org/2014/12/4/manan-mohit-parikhManan, Mohit ParikhFilling the voidThis book had to come. The favourable aspect is that it comes from a professional author (read: not his first rodeo). It comes at an opportune time also. The millennials are waking up and looking back, at the good times, of the internet-less 90s, and reminiscing all over the internet about it in gif and jp...

A blogger's thought on Manan

Came across this blog review: http://nandinireviews.blogspot.in/2014/11/manan-book-review.html

The blogger says,
"Who will enjoy it: Everyone!
Buy or don't buy: A must buy!"