Samit Basu

Just back from Jaipur. So much happened, so many stories to tell, but already deadlines loom and so I’ll just run away after posting some links, as usual. Here’s a piece I did for the BBC on five highlights of the Jaipur festival. Here’s the text: THE RUSHDIE CONTROVERSY If there was one unifying theme [...]

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Here‘s a GRRM piece I wrote for the Sunday Guardian.  

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This came out on Rediff.com yesterday, here. Posting it on this site as well in case the slideshow format there doesn’t agree with you.   I spent a lot of time this year wandering the wilderness of Bollywood trying to put together a film adaptation of my last novel, Turbulence, a superhero novel set in [...]

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Putu is a Hero now   Putu is a Hero now. Stop him if you can but how? Putu wearing underwear Wiggling like he just don’t care. Putu stopping every villain Only bruisin, never killin, Putu shooting beam from eye, Like a lightning in the sky. Putu having honour code, Always paying what is owed, [...]

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For iPads/iPhones for $2.99 here. Written by Mike Carey and me, art by Ashok Bhadana, published by Liquid Comics. Tall Tales of Vishnu Sharma is here. And if you run a search for Devi, they’re all up as well (I wrote issues 3-10)

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Further updates and links here:   Update – The book tour is done, and after travelling from Calcutta to Jaipur to Kochi to Bangalore to Bombay for round 2, I”m fairly glad it’s over. Much fun was had, and there are a few updates, and this is a big one: Mumbai Mirror on Turbulence going [...]

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Aman Sen is smart, young, ambitious and going nowhere. He thinks this is because he doesn’t have the right connections – but then he gets on a plane from London to Delhi and discovers, a few days later, that he has turned into a communications demigod, able to control and manipulate all networks, including the [...]

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Because fungus was growing on this blog. Again. So. About a month to go to Turbulence. Proofs are done. Covers are in. There’s going to be a limited edition hardback, with an extra section ( a cluster of very short stories set in the world of the novel, with the few compulsory drastic reveals) with [...]

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Hello. I’ve just started the first leg of the Terror on the Titanic tour. The dates for the launches in Bangalore, Mysore and Calcutta are: Bangalore: Reliance TimeOut bookstore, Cunningham road, 630 pm 13th July. Update: Here’s a piece in DNA Bangalore about the tour and the book. Further update. The Hindu (The cameo in [...]

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I finished my first book almost exactly eight years ago. Don’t remember the date, but it was in April 2002. I’m about a week away from finishing my fifth, my first young adult novel. That, plus about fifteen issues of comics, twelve short stories or so, two screenplays sold but as yet unproduced, a couple [...]

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