Hello fine readers: A workshop organised by Out of Print author, Nisha Susan, and Gaurav Jain.
On Living: How to remain cheerful in adversity, not misinterpret events, draw strength from childhood, keep lifelong friends, and foil all the zany schemes, dumb employers, bossy employees, horrible relatives and pesky pets out there.
In general, how to read better, write better and not be an insufferable literary git. Or something like that.
Testimonials from past participants: http://goo.gl/2evF2
Dates: Saturday, April 6 2:00-6:00 pm & Sunday, April 7 10:00 am-2:00 pm
WHAT PG WODEHOUSE CAN TEACH YOU ABOUT READING, WRITING & LIVING
Spend a weekend with the master of laughs and learn some profound lessons along the way.
On Reading: How to resist your education, be aware of prevalent conventions, enjoy the classics and consume both pop and high culture.
On Writing: How to keep a discipline, increase your efficiency, plan meticulously, understand your market, create universal appeal, be prolific, form zinger sentences, create fantastic characters and plot intricately.
On Living: How to remain cheerful in adversity, not misinterpret events, draw strength from childhood, keep lifelong friends, and foil all the zany schemes, dumb employers, bossy employees, horrible relatives and pesky pets out there.
In general, how to read better, write better and not be an insufferable literary git. Or something like that.
Testimonials from past participants: http://goo.gl/2evF2
Venue: Indian Social Institute, Benson Town, Bangalore
Cost: Rs 2,500 (Includes tea/snacks on Saturday and lunch on Sunday)
Instructors: Nisha Susan & Gaurav Jain are prominent writers and critics. Susan is a fiction writer and former Culture Editor at Tehelkamagazine whose short stories have been published by Penguin, Zubaan and Out of Print. She was a columnist for Time Out Delhi and currently writes a film column for TheBigIndianPicture.com. Her latest short story is published this month in the anthology Of Mothers & Others. Jain is a critic and former Literary Editor at Tehelka magazine who won the 2012 Press Club Award for Excellence in Journalism. He was on the jury last year for Elle India’s selection of the Best South Asian Young Writers.Susan and Jain were also the editors of Tehelka's annual issue of short stories for many years, where they commissioned and edited some of the finest south Asian writers such as Amitava Kumar, Ruskin Bond, Devdutt Pattanaik, Sarnath Banerjee, Anjum Hasan, HM Naqvi, Musharraf Ali Farooqi, etc.
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