June 20, 2019
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Found this speech by the late Girish Karnad, theater colossus– the First A.K. Ramanujan Memorial Lecture. He speaks about the litterateur and translator AK Ramanujan himself. “He was among the first of Indian thinkers to take a serious look at … Continue reading
June 13, 2019
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Creative writing workshops can be strenuous for writers. Imagine sitting in a closed room with your work being put out there for display. You could clamp down shut, get nervous or lose your train of thought. We are told that … Continue reading
May 30, 2019
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Everything that you write has a structure, a shape. Just like a house can elegantly capture the light and become an expression of the architect’s personality, a book also follows certain patterns. Jane Alison believes that writing has a visual … Continue reading
May 16, 2019
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Open AI made headlines when they announced that AI was too dangerous to release in the wild. AI is a potential intelligence threat and as far as novelists are concerned, they may just put the writer out of business. How … Continue reading
May 2, 2019
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If you are a confirmed Janeite or a fan of Jame Austen’s most famous work Pride and Prejudice, you would enjoy a literary pilgrimage to the eighteenth-century house where she lived and wrote. Of interest is the walnut table, which … Continue reading
April 18, 2019
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One of the most fascinating fairytales I’ve read is The Ugly Duckling, a tale of transformation. In The Ugly History of Beautiful Things, Katy Kelleher talks about another kind of ugly thing: a pearl whose birth is from a rather unattractive … Continue reading
April 4, 2019
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Do we write differently on screen? The question is an interesting one and one many of us have asked ourselves. I have noticed that I used to be far more thoughtful when I wrote with a pen but now since … Continue reading
March 21, 2019
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Richard Seymour talks about the origins of the meaning of language and goes into great depth about how civilization perceives meaning from text. The essay is thorough and well-thought out. It may take two or three readings to get to … Continue reading
March 7, 2019
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How many of you are terrified of public speaking? Turns out that this is more the norm than the exception. Public speaking merited a great deal of attention even back in Cicero’s time. If you know how to speak confidently, … Continue reading
February 21, 2019
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There are lots of lessons to learn from publication, especially if a book has been inside your body for years and then one day sees the light of day. It is a birth. Paul Harding took five years to write … Continue reading