Book Review Opportunity: The Inimitable Chaos Of Life by Maliny Mohan

The Inimitable Chaos Of Life
Maliny Mohan

Publication Date: July 29, 2016

•  Story Mirror
• 192 pages

Genre: Romance, Literature and Fiction, Fiction, 

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Blurb:

A naive girl of eighteen is trapped in a dungeon, which changes her and her capturer’s life forever. Afar, tucked away in the sleepy terrains of a town in Kerala, a married woman is determined to revisit a forbidden part of her past. A model-turned-MBA aspirant is scourged mentally for a decision she almost made three years back. Back in the less happening village of Kanyapuram, an aspiring author loses a copy of her very first manuscript.
True to its title, ‘The Inimitable Chaos of life’ is an amalgamation of enthralling stories borrowed from the chaotic pages of life, which allure you to relive the multitude of unique emotions humans are made of.

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Book Review Opportunity: The Prince's Special Bride (Royal Romance Book 1 by Devika Fernando

The Prince's Special Bride (Royal Romance Book 1)
Devika Fernando

Publication Date: July 29, 2016

•  Amazon Digital Services LLC
• 277 pages

Genre: Romance, Literature and Fiction, Fiction, Series of Royal Romance

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Blurb:

Marie doesn’t believe in fairytales and needs no handsome prince to rescue her from misery – but everything changes when she falls in love with Crown Prince Christian of Taragonia. When his sister invites Marie to the palace, their lives collide and leave them both fighting their forbidden attraction. 

Prince Christian has no place in his life for love or for a woman who doesn’t fit into the royal scheme of things. But vivacious Marie steals his heart and puts all he has lived for at stake. When the media gets wind of their affair, he has to make a difficult decision. 

Will the unlikely couple have a chance at a happy ending? 

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Sumeetha Manikandan, author of Ponni's Beloved, speaks to Sanchita Sen

What makes an epic? Know from the author, who herself took on an epic challenge to translate a classic. Read on to know more

History, intrigue, treachery, secrets, betrayal, love, infatuation, ambition and huge dollops of chivalry, war and humour – an epic is often the amalgamation of all this and more. No epic has a happy ever after… that’s only for fanciful M&B writers I guess. All epics end with a tinge of sadness that makes you want to delve into it again and again.

Sanchita: The reviews of this book has been great! You took on translating an epic! Was it an epic challenge? If yes, what were they?

Sumeetha: It was an epic challenge and it still is because I am still translating volume 4 and there is still one more volume to go before I complete this series. Language, humour, detailed descriptions of life thousand years ago… the project has been replete with challenges.

Sanchita: What according to you are the right requirements for making an epic?

Sumeetha: History, intrigue, treachery, secrets, betrayal, love, infatuation, ambition and huge dollops of chivalry, war and humour – an epic is often the amalgamation of all this and more. No epic has a happy ever after… that’s only for fanciful M&B writers I guess. All epics end with a tinge of sadness that makes you want to delve into it again and again because you would rather live in that period when things were happy and right in the world.

Sanchita: Who is your favorite author and why?

Sumeetha: I have many favourite authors. Kalki Krishnamurthy tops the list among vernacular authors. Followed by Venkatesh Ramakrishnan of Gods, Kings and Slaves fame. I love K.M. Munshi’s books. His series Krishnavatara remains my favourite book of all times, even today. Ken Follet is yet another author who has perfected the art of pulling the reader into an era of his choosing.

Sanchita: What do you think is the need of the hour in the present milieu of storytelling?

Sumeetha: There are many excellent classic novels written in vernacular languages – Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and also Hindi. These need to be translated for a wider audience.

Sanchita: Sneak peek into your next project

Sumeetha: I am working on three different projects. Two are romance novels and one will be a historic fantasy novel. I am a slow writer and I write whenever the mood strikes me amidst the many writing projects that I undertake for my freelance clients. So I guess these will see the light of the day by the end of this year (fingers crossed)

Rapid fire round (First thought that comes to mind on hearing these words)

a.      Classic: Ponniyin Selvan

b.      Translate: Sivagamiyin Sabatham (My next translation project)

c.      Literature: Shakespeare

d.      Heritage: Thiruvalluvar

e.      Eclectic: Keats, Shelly and Byron

About the Author

Author Sumeetha Manikandan

Sumeetha Manikandan is a top bestselling romance author whose novellas ‘Perfect Groom’ and ‘These Lines of Mehendi’ (which was published as a paperback novel called ‘Love Again’) have been on the top of Amazon India charts ever since its publication. A bookaholic, thinker, feminist and a daydreamer, she reads across genres and is a crazy fan of history, romance and science fiction novels.

An avid reader of historical novels, she has been translating Kalki Krishnamurthy’s classic Tamil novel Ponniyin Selvan for the past ten years and hopes to translate more of his novels to English.

Sumeetha is married to filmmaker K.S. Manikandan and lives with her nine-year- old daughter in Chennai.

Her book Ponni's Beloved is available at:

Amazon.com                    Amazon.in                    Amazon.co.uk

'Bombaywaali - celebration of Mumbai, past, present and future', covered by Janaki Nagaraj

Kiran Manral and Tisca Chopra having a meaningful conversation

Bombaywaali is the celebration of Mumbai past, present, and the future. Alive with new ideas, wit, inspirations, design and successes, ShethepeopleTV brings you engaging conversations with women who observe and storify this city. And true to their word the session was witty, fun and insightful.

The event took place at Title Waves and Kiran Manral was in conversation with the actor Tisca Chopra.

Kiran started off the talk by asking Tisca,"who is the real Tisca?" Tisca's answer to that was apt as she said - I have no definite answer for that because you try to understand about yourself from what people say about you, about the work I do. I am all that every other woman is but I really don't know."

She shared about her experience as a Paying Guest, her relationship with the lady who owned the PG, the little anecdotes relating to that. When asked about her transition to theatre from the movies - "The 90's were a very bad phase in the Hindi film industry for women. The first movie, I acted in, I just had to say Raju in two variations that's all but I had four songs to my credit. And the film flopped. The make up was used extensively that if you removed the person from the make-up, the make up could act."

Theatre gave her more perspective, more satisfaction as she had the opportunity to work in some international projects.

The short movie she wrote and produced, named "Chutney" has more than 78 million views on YouTube and has won a couple of awards. She talked about her experience of writing the script and of bringing it to fruition.

On her moving to writing - " I come from a family of writers. My father being an educationist has written books and so has my uncles. So writing was always there. You know acting was like the boyfriend whom I chased, and writing was like a husband who was there. Now I have realised the importance of the "husband" and will give more attention to him." She also added that writing fiction is much more difficult than writing a non-fiction.

On success, she said, "Success is very personal. It defines when and how you feel you are successful, not just when it translates into money. A creative person is also an entrepreneur because you have to "Sell" it to the people. Every person has a mountain in them, a tsunami in them and an Universe in them. Instead of waiting for things to happen, go out there and do it. Universe will then conspire and make it happen."