fiction or fact
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Why be a writer if you are not going to use your most powerful weapons, which are words?
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Satire: ‘I have been to nine literary festivals. It has been nine too many.’
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Satire: This fantasy version of a literary panel discussion might be closer to reality than we think
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No, dear writer, don’t be a helicopter parent to your book (and don’t tell us how the baby was made)
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Satire: Why must publishers chase Priyanka Chopra and Sanjay Dutt while neglecting real writers?
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Once upon a time In Indian publishing: Six fantasies for 2018
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Women in publishing break the glass ceiling all the time. Why pick Priyanka Chopra for a lecture?
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Lit fests are coming! Watch out for the moderator!! Or, rather, for the mad orator!!!
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Same editors, different companies: How will Delhi publishers ever produce better books?
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Why publishers shouldn’t love movie stars (or, how Bollywood is turning books into BS)
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Ten literary trends we’re staring at in India in 2017
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Six customised cocktails for the litfest season
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Why Twitter (and not the editor) is a writer’s best friend
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What Shilpa Shetty taught us about the art of reading novels is revealed in these 35 mini-reviews
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Four questions to ask a writer at a litfest (and five questions to avoid)
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What Sun Tzu can teach us about how to attend a book launch
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What I learnt about writing by judging a creative writing contest at a college
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After self-publishing, here comes self-litfesting. Who needs Jaipur?
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Enid Blyton’s Famous Five give up booze and gluten, become parents. Are you ready for this?
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So you think it’s all about loving your publisher? You’re wrong
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Memo to first-time authors: Seven reminders of rude reality
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The logo game: why it’s time writers realised that publishers don’t own them
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Can Bollywood's (and all other …woods') invasion of books be halted?
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‘Eight superpowers my superhero characters would have in present day India’
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What if Harry Potter had been a student of JNU?
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Finally, a writer reviews his own book (because no one else will)
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A matter of literature and death: Eight short suicidal tales
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Here’s the formula for the future of the book: Become a TV discussion
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Things people really say (and do) at literary festivals in India
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The book is not a product. It’s 10 products rolled into one
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Should writers switch from books to advertising?
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Of Mrs Funnybones, bestsellers and swelling violins
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How the Selfie Monkey saved India’s book business
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Can writers actually sell anything but books?
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How to organise your bookshelves in 14 steps
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Why books become old quickly and die prematurely
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The 20 stages of being an Indian writer
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Eight maths problems that writers must solve
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Five apps that need to be developed for bookish people
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The pen-pushers of Retellpur: nine books waiting to be written
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How to be a next big thing in literature
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Ten reasons you should marry a male writer
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India's hottest literary love affair: between writer and editor
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Twelve superheroes who are actually writers
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How literary agents try to destroy writers
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Are you planning to write a book? Don’t!
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How Mamata Banerjee unwittingly sparked the idea of smart, book-reading cities
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What happens at a book prize jury meeting
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The April Fool’s Guide to 20 books you must read
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The writer arrived at his book event. What happened next won’t amaze you
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Ten things to be prepared for when your book is up for pre-order
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The Chennai book launch: it’s the food, stupid
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The 14 assassins of creativity
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A new dictionary of book classification in bookstores
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A dictionary of publishing for writers in India
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Why book editors should not try online dating: a true story
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What not to read before travelling to India
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How my nephew made me the happiest aunt a reader could have
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Six plots for novels that won’t cause offence
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Why the obsession with ancient Indian science is like Bengalis being besotted with Tagore
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22 book reviews that no one dared publish
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An ardent plea to a publisher to consider an original series on youthful love in India
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'The truth is, Pakistan is better than you in every single way'
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How I got a book deal and lived to tell the tale (barely)
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An open letter from Riya Somani to Chetan Bhagat