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Vadhan Writes
In my blog ,I share my journey as an author of 5 best selling books, and provide writing tips and advice for aspiring authors.
English writing Indian authors are growing in numbers. More specifically, the ones that write fiction. But does that mean their...
Vadhan
- Sep 7, 2020
- 2 min
Ten Years-Two Days-Part 2
This is the concluding part of my article, Ten Years-Two Days. While the first part was about how I turned to writing and got my first...
Vadhan
- Aug 6, 2020
- 2 min
Ten Years-Two Days
I wrote my first sentence to start my story telling journey in 2005. By 2007, my first book was complete after many, many iterations. The...
Vadhan
- Apr 20, 2020
- 3 min
Not YET another COVID-19 rant!
So, COVID-19 took the world by a storm. Now there’s news (or is it a conspiracy theory?) by a Nobel prize winning scientist who first...
Vadhan
- Jul 17, 2019
- 1 min
Fear is the Key
The FCPA is a law with extra-terrestrial reach. Which means that though it is an American law (brought into being in 1977 as a reaction...
Vadhan
- Oct 20, 2018
- 2 min
Hello after a while
So many things have happened in the last few months. A time of great uncertainty has come to an end. It’s true what they say about a door...
Vadhan
- Feb 6, 2018
- 2 min
Sense of Honour- A One Minute Story
He wouldn’t fight for me. He wouldn’t fight me either. He said so. His own words. Of what use can he be to me? That’s what I thought at...
Vadhan
- Jan 12, 2018
- 4 min
Krishna V/s Krishna’s army
I was brought up with anecdotal stories from the great epics of India. The Ramayana and the Mahabharata. While one epic dealt with the...
Vadhan
- Dec 19, 2017
- 2 min
Ten things to do to be a bestseller!
The big question, isn’t it? What makes something what it is? What makes one book a success and another a failure. Other than the obvious...
Vadhan
- Nov 11, 2017
- 4 min
Publishing Non-Fiction, Risk of Libel
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. William Shakespeare Nothing could...
Vadhan
- Nov 5, 2017
- 2 min
A Literary Lawyer for Authors
I love writing. It is the THE love of my life. I am an author of fiction. A published one. I signed up with two different publishers for...
Vadhan
- Aug 14, 2017
- 2 min
Are We Independent or Are We Just Free?
On the 71st Independence day for India, I am chipping in with this very relevant excerpt from Agniputr: When Agni First Spoke, my book....
Vadhan
- Aug 4, 2017
- 1 min
To live. To breathe. To actually dare…
This means a lot to me. A review. It ratifies everything I dreamed about for my book. My book is a dream. My dream. And here is someone...
Vadhan
- Jun 16, 2017
- 2 min
AAAAWW SHADDAP!
Who cares for opinions anyway? Think about it. Do. Does anyone care for your views or my views? Especially if they are dipped in failure...
Vadhan
- Mar 16, 2017
- 2 min
John Grisham meets Dan Brown meets Stephen King
Authors often have the habit of catching up on what’s going on around them. They need to know. Its an author thing to do. I am no...
Vadhan
- Feb 23, 2017
- 1 min
A letter from a Reader.
When people I don’t know write specifically to me about how much they love my work, I think its a different level of nirvana altogether....
Vadhan
- Feb 21, 2017
- 1 min
Vadhan’s interview in popular literary platform, Writersmelon.com
A million copies sold! Wow! Not yet, but we’ll get there! In the meanwhile, the next best thing’s happened. I’ve been interviewed by...
Vadhan
- Jan 11, 2017
- 1 min
Agniputr: Book Review
So Cool! Thanks a ton !!! There and Their When Agni First Spoke Author: Vadhan Publisher: Bloomsbury India Many years ago, an...
Vadhan
- Jan 8, 2017
- 1 min
Jack Reacher, Never Go Back-Why I agree with title of the Movie
I saw the first Jack Reacher movie, One Shot, in which a part of Jack Reacher came to life. From the knees down. No one knows what...
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