The Story Within Us All
In the 1970s, when I was around 13, my parents were transferred to Calcutta. The enormous, crowded city came as a shock after relatively small-town Madras, where I had grown up, and the sylvan rural [...]
6 Ways You Could Change a Street Childs life forever (without giving them money at traffic stops)
My book Skyfire, begins with the disappearance of street children which takes its protagonists on a riveting trail of mass destruction. While my book touches on their plight lightly in the hope of creating awareness, [...]
From fact springs fiction
Aroon Raman’s first thriller The Shadow Throne was set in the immediate aftermath of the killing of Osama bin Laden by US Navy Seals in May 2011. When it was discovered that the mastermind of [...]
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme
Mark Twain said it so beautifully. Echoes of the time past reverberate in time present and send out ripples into time future. History doesn’t repeat, but it does rhyme and it certainly inspires fiction – [...]
An Angel on the Rock
We sat beneath the tamarind tree, the goat-herd and I. I had been walking along the track when I came across him tending to his goats. He was thin as a stick, like most villagers [...]