Chiki sarkar biography of christopher
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Chiki Sarkar Posts
(I interviewed Chiki Sarkar and Durga Raghunath, co-founders of Juggernaut. As Chiki put it across so well, “Durga is part of the change and I am part of the continuity. The combo of us would be magic. She is the creative mind of business and I am the business side of creativity.” This interview was conducted with a face-to-face meeting with Chiki Sarkar at her office and with Durga, over the phone. It was published in the Hindu Sunday Magazine digitally on 3 Oct and in print on 4 Oct Here is the url to the link: ?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication )
The recently launched publishing firm, Juggernaut, hopes to take on the big players in the field. Its co-founders Chiki Sarkar and Durga Raghunath talk about what’s in store.
The key investors in Juggernaut are Nandan Nilekani, William Bissell and Neeraj Aggarwal. Chiki Sarkar, previously publisher of Penguin India and founder-publisher of Random House India, has
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#Throwback Five things that shook the world of words
Every year, Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary selects a word of the year. And this year, the word that has been selected is “surreal”. And boy, are we even surprised? From Brexit to Trump’s victory and a year of terrorist massacres witnessed in various parts of the world like Brussels, Nice, Turkey, there surely cannot be a better word to sum up this year. Surreal, meaning “unbelievable”.
As we cannot wait to step into , here’s taking a look at people and things from the literary world who have helped us to “indulge our imagination in every possible flight”, in Jane
Austen’s words.
Juggernaut: First Indian Book Publishing App
At a time when self-publishing is becoming a rage in the global literary scenario, India this year witnessed the roll-out of the first ever book publishing app. Taking the publishing industry by storm, Chiki Sarkar and Durga Raghunath founded Juggernaut, a mobile-first digital platform for the Indian reading
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BY VaniINFor Writers, Guest post
10 / May
‘Dumb Down’ the Language or Indulge Yourself? Book Authors Reflect [Quint]
A writer recently passed me along his new thriller novel for an honest feedback. Took me a quick skim to notice that while the story was excellent, the language, not quite. It felt as if he had replaced all the “easy” words he could find with their synonyms.
Almost at once I was reminded of a quote from Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, where he says: “One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you are maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.”
And that is as much as India’s top literary agent, Kanishka Gupta of the Writer’s Side, also says: “Authors should write in a language that comes