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Manreet Sodhi Someshwar

The Taj Conspiracy

Makarands Musings ― I have been suffering from a writer’s block for quite some time. Predictably, it’s a book that is helping me get out of it. And this particular book actually sucked me in. Off late, I haven’t read any book in … Continue reading →

Tags: Books, Reading, Entertainment, Blogadd, Manreet Sodhi Someshwar

Makarand Karkare ― 40 weeks ago

Of Sugar and Spice ...

The Long Walk Home ― So folks, I was getting ready to hunker down at my desk for another day of writing when research took me to google the omniscient, and, voila!, I stumbled upon a coverage in The Hindu of my debut novel: Earning the Laundry Stripes. ∙ ...

Tags: Sales, The Hindu, Earning The Laundry Stripes, Unilever India, Rupa, Manreet Sodhi Someshwar

Manreet ― 25 May, 11

A great story never ends where it is expected to!

The Long Walk Home ― For me, the great pleasure of a well-thumbed, much-loved book is that when I am busted after a day of writing, or when I just want to read someone other than myself (the travails of a writerly life, eh!), I pick up one such friend. ∙ ...

Tags: Rabih Alameddine, The Hakawati, Book Review, Biblical, SCMP, Manreet Sodhi Someshwar

Manreet ― 17 May, 11

India, Ignoring Women at its Peril

The Long Walk Home ― An edited version of this article appeared as an op-ed in the South China Morning Post of 14 February 2011. ∙ On 7 February a young girl in India had her nose, arm and ear chopped off. Her crime: resisting rape. Seventeen-year-old Sarika ...

Tags: Global Gender Gap Index, Women In India, The Long Walk Home, No One Killed Jessica, Fatehpur, Manreet Sodhi Someshwar

Manreet ― 29 Apr, 11

An Indian Summer, Sales Spiel, and a Life Lesson

The Long Walk Home ― Destination: Dohad, Gujarat (read boondocks)Purpose: Sales trip (ostensibly in pursuit of earning my laundry stripes!)Serendipity: A Life lesson (entirely unanticipated, in the mode of Serendip-Sri Lanka) ∙ Summer time in Gujarat gives an...

Tags: Cleartrip, The Long Walk Home, Destination, Purpose, Manreet Sodhi Someshwar, Dohad

Manreet ― 29 Apr, 11

Birds dropping dead from the Sky, and a Sea of Poppies

The Long Walk Home ― January is named after Janus, the two-headed Roman God, and appropriately so: it's a time when we look back at what has gone by and look forward to what lies ahead. And boy, has 2011 arrived: birds dropping dead from the sky, blasts in Egypt and...

Tags: Sea Of Poppies, The Hong Kong International Literary Festival 2011, Manreet Sodhi Someshwar, Amitav Ghosh

Manreet ― 29 Apr, 11

A book to look up!

The Long Walk Home ― From kaleidoscope to balderdash and back : My journey with my oldest book… ∙ I was nine years old when I encountered the word ‘kaleidoscope’. My father had suggested that I start reading the newspaper and in the interval between finishing ...

Tags: Dictionary, The Long Walk Home, My Oldest Book And It's Memories, Manreet Sodhi Someshwar

Manreet ― 29 Apr, 11

A writer, a President and two Nays

The Long Walk Home ― Two recent news in Indian media caught my eye: the banning of Rohinton Mistry’s book Such a Long Journey, and a probable cancellation of President Obama’s planned trip to the Golden Temple during his upcoming trip to India. The two engaged me ...

Tags: India Visit, Head Scarf, The Long Walk Home, Obama, Golden Temple, Manreet Sodhi Someshwar

Manreet ― 29 Apr, 11

Arundhati Roy ko gussa kyon aata hai?

The Long Walk Home ― In a recent speech Ms Roy has famously stated that Kashmir was never a part of India. The timeline she is alluding to is 1947, when the British ordained what the territory called India would be. As for Bharat, or Hindustan, the land has existed ...

Tags: Kashmir, India, Arundhati Roy, The Long Walk Home, Manreet Sodhi Someshwar

Manreet ― 29 Apr, 11

Black-eye donor, failed Presidential candidate, Nobel laureate – Mario Vargas Llosa, and the many shades of a writer

The Long Walk Home ― The Nobel committee can be justly cheered for awarding the Nobel Prize for Literature 2010 to the Peruvian writer, journalist, essayist and politician Mario Vargas Llosa. Widely accepted as one of the luminaries writing in the Spanish-speaking ...

Tags: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Long Walk Home, Nobel Prize For Literature 2010, Manreet Sodhi Someshwar, Mario Vargos Llosa

Manreet ― 29 Apr, 11

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