Author Interview : Sunil Robert

Sunil Robert’s book I Will Survive is the story of the author’s own life- the tumultuous years of growing up in small town India, his struggles to make sense of the world around him and his learning the skills to negotiate the dark realities and emerge as a successful corporate executive. FriendsOfBooks chatted with the [...]

Serious Popular Fiction by Anuradha Marwah For years in the West people made a distinction between high and low art: serious literary fiction and popular novels. Serious used to be worthy or ‘great’ literature, usually realistic and message driven, prescribed to the impressionable for the elevation of their souls; whereas the popular was allied with [...]

I think I’ve got a book in me…How can I be sure that I’m good enough to be an author?

I’ve had extensive opportunities to interact with book lovers and potential authors across India during my ongoing “The eMedha Paradigm” book tour. During these in-person as well as electronic (mails, chats, website-comments, etc) interactions, quite a few questions have kept on popping back almost rhetorically. One such question that I’ve been asked quite frequently is: [...]