Chetan Bhagat is my hero, says Chennai author Prraveen Khumar
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March 11, 2021 10:15 IST
A dead body in a lake brings chaos in author Prraveen Khumar’s latest thriller, Battle for Power
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A dead body in a lake brings chaos in author Prraveen Khumar’s latest thriller, Battle for Power
“A policeman’s wife is missing.”
That is the one-line film idea that producer MM Chandramouli pitched to author Prraveen Khumar N, after being impressed reading his debut novel,
An Incredible Indian Rescue.
The producer wanted a slapstick comedy revolving around that line, but Prraveen found it really hard. “I just could not make it funny. So, I wrote a thriller in the form of a book and presented it to him when it was 70% complete.”
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March 04, 2021 09:41 IST
It has resulted in the creation of authorpreneurs, who quench their creative thirst and make money
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It has resulted in the creation of authorpreneurs, who quench their creative thirst and make money
In a corner of the bustling Chennai Book Fair with its nearly 700 stalls are racks that contain self-published Tamil works.
Here, authors directly walk up to you and explain their content. You can have a chat with them, and decide if you would like to pick up the book; 12 city authors who have self-published their material have set up such racks in a first-of-its-kind initiative at the 44th Chennai Book Fair. “Some of these authors do not have money to hire a stall, so we give them a rack for ₹8,000 where they can display upto 50 titles and have the chance to directly interact with the audience they are writing for,” says RS Shanmugam, president of the Book Sellers and Publishers Association of South India (BAPASI).