Books And Writing

The Corpse That Spoke

I have a new book-type kind of thing out! It costs Rs. 30 and will take you, quite literally, 30 minutes to read. Do it man! Do it! (Click on the picture.)

What We Remember (feat. Downloadable Masters Essay)

Around this time last year, as some of you may be aware, I enrolled in a Masters program at Birkbeck College in London. For some years now I had nurtured this plan of going back to college and learning something entirely new — maybe History…

The text on the back cover of the next book

The Sceptical Patriot: Exploring the Truths behind the Zero and Other Indian Glories

There is really no such thing, ethnically speaking, as an Indian. We are all, every…

Sneak Peek #2

October/November 2012. Stay tuned.

Woods. Trees.

I’ve only ever been to the Jaipur Literary Festival once. That was two years ago when my first book was just about to be launched. By some odd twist of fate the first retail copies of Dork went on sale at the little bookshop that runs at JLF each year. There was no larger purpose in scheduling it thus…

Robin “Einstein” Varghese will be with you shortly… again.

Finally. After a delay of CWG proportions, I have just completed the first draft of Dork 2. It happened approximately 5 hours ago. For now I am calling it D2D1. The version you will see in ex-tree/Kindle/iPad/Xoom/modern-dance…

Top 10 ways to be passive aggressive with small-time authors

As some of you may know, thanks to that zonking huge cover in the right sidebar there, in January this year my debut novel was published by Penguin Books India. And — touch wood, kiss wood, dry hump wood — it has been doing…