Abhirup Dhar: Most publishers aren’t keen on short stories
The Ethos Literary Festival 2018 is set to take place in Dum Dum, Kolkata from December 22-23. As part of our partnership with ELF, we are bringing you author interviews, session details and profiles of the speakers you are likely to bump into. One of them is Abhirup Dhar, author of Once Again… With Love! and Stories […]
“Complex poems deceive the purpose of language”: Nikita Parik
The Ethos Literary Festival 2018 takes place in Dum Dum, Kolkata, from December 22-23, 2018. From today, get to know your speakers better through our interview, as we understand their work and get a glimpse of the sessions they will be holding. First up is Nikita Parik, the 26-year-old poet with a Bachelor’s degree in English, […]
Day 1 Schedule: Ethos Literary Festival 2018
On December 22-23, 2018, Dum Dum in Kolkata will play host to the the Ethos Literary Festival 2o18, organised by the Ethos Literary Journal and Hawakal Publishers. Given this association, its heavy emphasis on poetry is not surprising. The bi-lingual fest will continue the trend of an emphasis on poetry that has been seen in […]
onWriting is the online media partner for Ethos Literary Festival 2018
Editor’s Note It’s the season of literature festivals and I have been busy looking at as many of them as possible to understand what the 333 fests, or at least some of them, are up to (on which a longer analytical feature will be out soon). It was on such a lit-hunt that I stumbled […]
Home Fire By Kamila Shamsie: Of God, love and politics
“Isma was going to miss her flight. The ticket wouldn’t be refunded because the airline took no responsibility for passengers who arrived at the airport three hours ahead of departure time and were escorted to an interrogation room. She had expected the interrogation, but not the hours of waiting that would precede it, nor that […]
Literary Events Calendar: December 2018
For readers, writers, students and followers of all things literary and just everyone looking to engage with fellow enthusiasts of the written word – we looked around and found the most interesting event happening in the country in December. Here’s a little list: Event Name: The Poetry Lineup What’s it about: 10 poets will perform, […]
On the art of storytelling: Dastango Syed Sahil Agha
Interviewing a storyteller is like listening to a fable – it is filled with anecdotes, short stories from yore and a feeling that you are sitting by the bonfire under a starlit sky, even though really I was under a white ceiling made of brick and steel and cement, in front of the drab but […]
Your writing is always within you, like a naughty monkey: PJJ Antony
I was first introduced to author PJJ Antony when I was working as the executive editor at Leadstart Publications, editing his translated collection of short stories, Come, Let Us Sin. We kept in touch after that, and his was often the first like on every onWriting post, even when we were not regularly active. Such […]
Under the stars: A storytelling festival in Udaipur
When you hear the word ‘story’ what comes to your mind? A picture book? An enchanted castle? A bonfire night with your friends, sharing ghost stories? Your grandparents’ voice? A ballad or a poem? Stories has become a near-cliche buzzword today, but the truth, as Yuval Noah Narari says in Sapiens, is that our world […]
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
On a bonfire night after a calamity that mostly scared and did not destroy, an elderly man sat next to me, and without provocation, began narrating the tales of his childhood that were a mix of passion and love, abandon and restraint, exuberance and melancholy. His honey-laced voice, a little raspy, waded with me through […]
