Did you know that Caranzalem and Mokokchung are places in India? Or that Vasco da Gama is not just the name of the Portuguese explorer, but also a city in Goa? Heard of Adoor, Asansol, Sakra or Ichapore? Well, these are just names of some of the places from where we received the 25,000 stories as part of the Write India initiative!
Write India has been an exhilarating experience for all of us and been quite an eye-opener with regard to the latent talent in our country. And we discovered a new generation of authors with Write India top winners – Sutapa Basu, Nainesh Jadwani, Kena Shree, Tishampati Sen, Samah Visaria, Aarati Shah, Jacintha Saldanha, Dr Roshan Radhakrishnan, Shachee Desai, Ramya Vivek, Vasudha Chandana Gulati and Rohit Tandekar!
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Pranshoe found writing for Archer "a process of discovering and exploration". On being declared the winner, he said, “As someone who has struggled to seek recognition for his literary work, a success of this magnitude is an ineffable feeling.”
Anumita also secured the second position for Madhuri Banerjee’s contest in Write India Season 1. "Just the fact that I had the opportunity to be read by Archer, and one of the leading editorial houses in the country is the reward of my effort," she said.
Divya saw Write India as a way to experiment writing for varied genres. "It was exhilarating to write for an icon as Sir Jeffrey Archer. Weaving a story around his prompt was a huge challenge, and it has indeed been a rewarding experience," she said.
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Jacintha Saldanha
Jignesh Ashar
Ramya Vivek
I wish I’d been there earlier. It might have made all the difference. So all I can tell you is why he was murdered.
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