Interview with Ruchir Joshi, Editor-Electric Feather:The Tranquebar Book of Erotic Stories

Some could argue that Ruchir Joshi had an enviable job there for a while, editing a book of erotic stories. Enviable maybe, but certainly not easy. To start with there isn’t much Indian work in the past to go by and set the bar to. Ye Olde Kamasutra would hardly qualify as erotica and there [...]

Risen from the bed!

Hello and yeah, yeah, yeah…its been almost two months since the last post and there is no excuse- None whatsoever! So since it rained where we are (Delhi) yesterday, and new buds shot out of our parched plants and tiny new sprouts of fresh ideas pop, pop, popped out of our heads, you’ll see many [...]

What’s gender got to do with it?

If there was a penny for every time we had to tell a journalist “No, people read all sorts of stuff, not just crime fiction”, we’d be rich…in dollars. There are some stereotypes that come with the territory. People assume that the large part of our readership would be bored housewives ( we know this [...]