Interview: Aditi Sowmyanarayan on 'Thus She Rose'   Print.Able: Aditi, I read your novel Thus She Rose almost as soon as it became available on Amazon and, as usual, I have my three questions for you.   But before that, let me say I really liked Pooja Sakhlani’s cover – the colours of the winter sky, the snow and fir trees in the background, and Zooni with the pretty top (lovely colour), the tattoo, and the thin gold chain. And now, my questions: Print.Able: A chalk and cheese difference in style and content between Gobble Thy Prejudice and Thus She Rose .   I enjoyed that. Very serious, hardly any humour, unexpected twists, including at the end – did the story just come to you in entirety or did you have to work a lot to put it together? Aditi: Thank you! I love the cover design too and it’s the wallpaper on my phone! So, let me just give you a bit of background about how the idea for this novel came about. This was right after my short story collection, Small S...

Excerpts from the Novella Gobble Thy Prejudice Aditi Sowmyanarayan In our previous post, ‘ Talking with an Author ’, Print.Able conversed with the award-winning writer, Aditi Sowmyanarayan. More about her publications, awards, achievements, and thoughts on writing in that post . Many aspects of the novella Gobble Thy Prejudice were discussed in the interview:  grammar, knowledge of finance, the research necessary to write about different fields, food, and humour.  Central to the last two, that is food and humour, is one of the characters in the book, Ramesh, and his enterprise Ranganayaki Caterers.  Surely the curiosity of those of who have not read the book is piqued. What is about the relationship between the narrator and Ramesh and Ranganayaki Caterers that is so interesting? To satisfy that curiosity, we are publishing, with permission of the author, two short excerpts from Gobble Thy Prejudice . Excerpts from Gobble Thy Prejudice Background:  Son of parents who...

 Talking to an Author An Interview with Aditi Sowmyanarayan Aditi Sowmyanarayan was not quite 18 when she was awarded the J.K.Paper AutHer Award for Best Manuscript in 2023. The award by J.K.Paper was to partner with Publisher Readomania to bring out Aditi’s novella, Gobble Thy Prejudice . But Aditi was a published author even before this, having contributed to Talking Fingers , a book about non-speaking autistics. More recently, her collection of short stories was published by Booksomania in February 2023, titled Small Stories Big Thoughts , now in its third imprint. Besides, she is an avid blogger Small step big thoughts . In April 2023, Aditi made a video presentation for the United Nations World Autism Awareness Day. She is a member of the steering committee of the India Chapter of the Institute of Neurodiversity and also writes content for websites like Project Lattice and Avaz Megaphone that aim to enhance inclusion by posting relevant content on social media. 1. Aditi, whe...