Reading Time: 3 minutesA good daughter. Three words that have done more harm than good. Living up to this reputation is tiring and severely limits a girl’s identity and independence. When being ideal turns a woman into a lovely showpiece in her own home.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThese words have echoed in every Indian home at some point or the other. Why are fear and shame used to influence choices and alter decisions? Let’s understand the psychology and damage these words have wreaked generation after generation. How I used this tension in my psychological thriller.
Reading Time: 3 minutesTwo timelines and one story. Writing the past and present together without losing the reader is a structural challenge. How I wrote a dual timeline psychological thriller novel and what I learned about keeping readers anchored in both worlds.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe cobra in Indian mythology. The orchard, a place of cultivation and decay. What do the two together reveal about the story beneath the story? Find out more about the meaning of my psychological thriller’s title Cobra Orchard.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Trust is the most mistrusted commodity in this world.” A dialogue from my Psychological Thriller Cobra Orchard. Storytelling is not as simple as it appears. Throw in an unreliable narrator and the reader is in for a wild and bumpy ride. Why do we trust so easily?
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe often learn to love from the family we grew up in. What love looks like. How it sounds. Why it makes us feel the way we do. But sometimes, love can become dark and uncomfortable. Putting that feeling in words is almost impossible.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFaith can be one’s greatest enemy, especially when it exists in a space of desperate devotion. The Indian godman knows how to target his prey with an exact combination of silence, words and timing. So many have suffered yet so many still believe.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe villages of rural India breathe life into the words of Cobra Orchard. The honesty, warmth, and deep silences do not hold back. The rawness and complexities of lives tell stories that will linger in the minds and hearts of every reader.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWho truly knows the human condition? Where can a heart shed its weight? How can a mind make sense of the chaos? What would it take for a person to reveal his inner universe to the world? Too many questions? Find out the answers with me.
Reading Time: 3 minutesHis mind works against him. He didn’t ask to be this way. He drifts like a shadow in his own family. Strange silences follow him wherever he goes. How does one understand and depict the grimness of a life that doesn’t know any better?
