Sheila Kumar - Comfortably Numb

Travel: My journeys, my words

Interview with Wandertrails Conversations Sheila Kumar – My journeys, my words March 23, 2018 Narayana Menon K A lover of words and wanderlust, Sheila Kumar’s adventures can give anyone the inspiration to not just travel around this wonderful world, but also to pen down delightful stories about it. An independent writer and manuscript editor, as well…

Feature: Millennials and money

Nothing more, nothing less As the earlier generation watches, the millennials streamline their spending pattern, readying to join the economical mainstream. I’ve had a millennial in my life for some years now but it took me a while to mark the clear-cut differences in our spending pattern. I was chatting with our cook, my…

Humour: Where has the word `taken` gone?

Where has the word `taken gone? How the writer has stumbled upon a conspiracy to remove a key word from the English dictionary. Now I don’t for a minute want to ring any alarm bells. I don’t even want to imply that I have stumbled on a Yossarian-like campaign to slowly, inexorably remove words from…

Book review: The Golden House by Salman Rushdie

This is more a brief take than review of the book. The Golden House by Salman Rushdie. Penguin/Hamish Hamilton I don`t know what to make of this book, I really don`t. After Arundhati Roy offloaded her somewhat chaotic treasure chest on the unsuspecting reader a short while ago, Salman Rushdie follows in her footsteps, much…

Humour: Indians lazy? How dare you!

The flip side of laziness A new study recently dubbed Indians the laziest people in the world. Sheila Kumar attempts a languid rebuttal What is this, I say. Why has this magazine study said that we are the laziest lot in the world? Do not believe this for a moment. The matter is deeper…

Interview with WriterStory

Sheila Kumar Interview – Kith and Kin Nikhil Narkhede May 29, 2015 We interviewed Sheila Kumar and here she speaks about her current work, academic background and all about writing. Very fascinating story right in her own words: I`m one of life`s lucky ones and I never forget it: I do something I love, writing, and…

Kith and Kin: Blog Interview on Prem Rao’s Blogsite

…

Kith and Kin: Readers revert

Kith and Kin, chronicles of a clan Kalyanaraman Durgadas, Bangalore I just finished reading your book. I loved it! Your language, the characters, the flow of the stories…it`s a book to be savoured. Susmita Srivastava, Jaipur Half through it, so can’t comment completely, but I am so enjoying the quiet mindscapes. The delineation of character…

Kith and Kin: Snapshots IV/ Bangalore/Chennai

K and K at the Catholic Club, Bangalore 12 October 2012 …

Kith and Kin: Snapshots II: Bangalore/Pune

A selection of Bangalore-based Rupa writers at the Oxford Bookstore, 1 MG Mall 22 March 2013 Kith and Kin in the land of the Marathas Pune, 20-23 February, 2013