I have seriously started working on The Last Man from Kashmir.
Dear readers, as the municipality says on the good, old roads: Kindly bear with us (me in this case).
I have decided that till the time I don't finish writing it all, I won't write anything on my blog (Remember No Optional Striving message on my pin-up board at office?) But, yes, I shall update this post daily and tell you what progress I have made on the novel.
From May 1 onwards, I have written over 1,600 words. They badly need editing, but right now, that is not my concern. My priority is to sit and write daily. Yes, daily, no matter what happens.
So, through this post, I shall update you, dear readers, daily, on how much I have written further. By December 31, it should be done. Otherwise I will quit writing, and, then I will only write insipid pieces of journalism.
Tell me, are you with me on this?
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- Rahul Pandita
- Delhi-based conflict writer. Author of "Hello, Bastar: The Untold Story of India's Maoist Movement" (Tranquebar Press), and co- author of Hachette India's non-fiction book of 2010,"The Absent State".
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- "Hello (1)
- 1857 revolt (1)
- 1947 (1)
- A Journey from Kashmir to London (1)
- A Poem in Hindi (1)
- A Story in Continuum (1)
- Aamir Khan (1)
- Abida Parveen (1)
- Agha Shahid Ali (2)
- Agnivesh (1)
- Ajmer (1)
- AK-47 (1)
- Amarnath (1)
- Amritsar (1)
- Anuradha Ghandy (1)
- Army in Kashmir (1)
- Arundhati Roy (1)
- Ascetics (1)
- Ayodhya (1)
- Azad (1)
- Babita Pandey (1)
- Bakery (1)
- Bal Thackeray (1)
- balcony (1)
- Barog (1)
- Bastar (2)
- Bastar" (1)
- Batalvi (1)
- Begum Akhtar (1)
- Bellow (1)
- Besra (1)
- Between the pages (1)
- Bhagat Singh (1)
- Bhindranwale (2)
- Bomai (1)
- Brass Band (1)
- cafe (1)
- Calculus (1)
- Calvin and Hobbes (1)
- Campaign In Rajasthan (1)
- Candy (1)
- Carlsberg (1)
- Carpets (1)
- Cawnpore (1)
- Chandigarh (2)
- Chaplin (1)
- Charbagh (1)
- Chess and Nirvana: A travel along the Ganges (1)
- Child soldiers (2)
- Cholera (1)
- City (2)
- Cobra forces (1)
- Coffee (1)
- Colombo (1)
- CPI(Maoist) (8)
- CPM (1)
- Cricket (1)
- CRPF (2)
- curtains (1)
- Dal Lake (3)
- Dalit (1)
- Dandakaranya (1)
- Dantewada (1)
- Dausa (1)
- Delhi (1)
- demon (1)
- Dhoni (1)
- Dignity of the dead (1)
- Doordarshan (1)
- dreams (1)
- Election (1)
- English (1)
- erectile (1)
- essay (18)
- Faizabad (1)
- Family tree (1)
- fiction (10)
- Fidayeen (1)
- Flower dreams (1)
- Flowers (1)
- Frangipani (1)
- Gadchiroli (1)
- Ganapathi interview (1)
- Gandhigiri (1)
- Garhwal (1)
- Ghost (1)
- graphic novel (1)
- Grenades (1)
- Gujarat (1)
- Gujjar (1)
- Gulzar (1)
- Gurgaon (1)
- Gymnastics (1)
- Habbakadal (1)
- Half marathon (1)
- Half Tomato Boiled Sparrow Eggs (1)
- happiness (1)
- Hari Kunzru (1)
- Haridwar (1)
- Harud (2)
- Heads I win tails you lose (1)
- heart rate (1)
- Heat stroke (1)
- Heinrich Boll (1)
- Hemingway (2)
- hemlock (1)
- Her Master's voice (1)
- Hindi blog (1)
- Home (1)
- Hotels in Kasauli (1)
- Houses for you (1)
- humor (1)
- Hypergraphia (1)
- Hypocrisy (1)
- I want to cry (1)
- IDP camps (2)
- If I turn blind tonight (1)
- In search of a poet (1)
- India Shining in Khairlanji (1)
- India Social Forum 2006 (1)
- Indian television (1)
- Indira Gandhi (1)
- Insurgency (1)
- Jagjit Singh (1)
- Jahangir chowk (1)
- Jammu Roughcut (1)
- Jharkhand (3)
- Jhitka forest (1)
- JK Police (1)
- Kabab (1)
- Kabir Katrina and Ketchup Dreams (1)
- Kalidasa (1)
- Kangri (1)
- Kasauli (2)
- Kashmir (27)
- Kashmir lit fest (1)
- Kashyap (1)
- Kehwa (1)
- Khalistan (1)
- Kobad Ghandy (2)
- Lakshmibai (1)
- Lal Chowk (1)
- Lalgarh (2)
- Landless in Punjab (1)
- Lansdowne (1)
- Life (2)
- Literature (1)
- Loan (1)
- LOC (1)
- loneliness (3)
- love (3)
- LTTE (2)
- Lucknow (2)
- Manmohan Singh (1)
- Maoists (9)
- Marquez (1)
- Meerut (1)
- Meeting Big B on NH 8 (1)
- memory (1)
- migration (1)
- Militants (1)
- Mind wanders in Meerut (1)
- Mining (1)
- Misir Besra (1)
- Mobile phone (1)
- Monaco Biscuits (1)
- Mountains (1)
- mutiny (1)
- My Mother's 22 Rooms (1)
- my name is Khan (1)
- Narcissus (1)
- Nawhatta (1)
- Naxalite (2)
- Naxalites (2)
- Naxals (1)
- Neelesh Misra (2)
- Neelmat Purana (1)
- No sleeping last night (1)
- Nonsense offerings of Peace (1)
- NREGA (1)
- NREGS (1)
- NSD (1)
- Obituaries (1)
- Of Horses and Illustrations (1)
- Of Human Bondage (1)
- Olympics (1)
- Only one Dream (1)
- Opium (1)
- Paash (1)
- Padmini Kolhapure (1)
- pain (1)
- Pandits (1)
- Peanuts (1)
- Philip Roth (1)
- Pilgrimmage (1)
- Pine (1)
- Pizza (1)
- PLGA (1)
- Poems (1)
- poetry (19)
- Postman Bouncing High (1)
- poverty (1)
- Prashant Rahi (1)
- Pratibha's remarriage? (1)
- Prayer beads (1)
- Premchand (1)
- Pubs (1)
- Punjab (1)
- Punjab: A Bihar in Making? (1)
- pursuit (1)
- Qawwali (1)
- Rahul Pandita (2)
- Railway (1)
- Raincoat (1)
- Rains (1)
- Rajapaksa (1)
- Rajasthan (2)
- Razia Sultan (1)
- Refugees (1)
- reporting (10)
- Reservation (1)
- Retinas on Nanda Devi (1)
- Rishi Kapoor (1)
- Ritusamhara (1)
- Roganjosh (1)
- Rum (1)
- Running (3)
- Sadhu (1)
- Safdar Hashmi (2)
- Sarai (1)
- scent (1)
- shahrukh Khan (1)
- Shaivism (1)
- Shankaracharya (1)
- Shirt (1)
- Shivratri (1)
- Should I take you to Shaheen? (1)
- Shrine (1)
- Sinhalese flag (1)
- soaps (1)
- SOG (1)
- Someone peeps into me (1)
- Squirrel (1)
- Sri Lanka (2)
- Srinagar Jammu Delhi (1)
- stories (1)
- Sufi (1)
- Suicide squad (2)
- Sukhna Lake (1)
- Sunday (1)
- Susheela Raman (1)
- Sylvia Plath (1)
- Taare Zameen Par (1)
- Tahaan (1)
- Tamil refugees (1)
- Tamil Tigers (2)
- tea (1)
- Terrorism (1)
- That Night of 1990 (1)
- The Absent State (1)
- The cherry stain (1)
- The Continuum so far (1)
- The Design of Madness (1)
- The Elbow Cream (1)
- The Life of Pandey Ji (1)
- The Missing Man (1)
- The Missing Man (Part 4) (1)
- The Missing Man (Parts 2 and 3) (1)
- The Quest for a House (1)
- The Sampaati Club (1)
- The scarecrows of Kolezari (1)
- The shades of his evening (1)
- Then and Now (1)
- This Characterless String (1)
- This Morning (1)
- Three friends and days of leisure (1)
- Time of parting (1)
- travel (1)
- tribesmen attack (1)
- Triglycerides (1)
- Trincomalee (2)
- TRP (1)
- Turgenev (1)
- TV says: Et tu Rahul? (1)
- typewriter (1)
- Untouchables (1)
- Uttarakhand (1)
- vomit (1)
- Washing machine (1)
- Watchmen (1)
- watermelon (1)
- Weekend getaways (1)
- Weston (1)
- Where is Swadesh Deepak? (1)
- windows (1)
- wine (1)
- Write (1)
- writing (1)
- You have come what for? (1)
- Your almond eyes (1)
- Your Painter yours only (1)
- उड़ीसा (1)
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17 comments:
Sounds good. Looking forward to see your daily update Wish you good luck for the book.
wishing you all the luck. write a damn good book.
In waiting brother... time is running out..
thanks for this decision man!
With you all the way -- & wish you the very best of luck. Recall such beautiful passages in drafts... with your will, they'll see the light.
Absolutely Rahul ... Best of luck and can't wait for your novel ...
All the very best...i have never commented on your posts...but may be this is the best time to...waiting for december 31st then..
hey ..whr r u working ....how did u start ur career as a journalist ?
You are indeed going through a tough time my friend.
Outstanding topic that you are working on. I appreciate you and my best wishes are with you.
wish you the very best of luck. Recall such beautiful passages in drafts
This is full of good stuffs..It is very briefly presented here so far.
hahah.Nice said . I always waiting for your post . Keep it up.
I have never commented on your posts...but may be this is the best time...
Then there are these two messages which are supposed to have been put by writer Philip Roth on his desk: Stay Put, No optional striving.
i am sorry for hear this but i am glad you find some work to do :)
Many many thanks for sharing this information with us. I want to congratulate you because you are doing a great job here.
The shock therapy its seems to be beneficial for the patients....
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