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Start Writing. Write Better. Three Workshops This May with The Story Company India
This May, The Story Company India brings you three focused, practice-led workshops designed for people who are serious about improving their craft. Not just thinking about writing, but doing the work of writing, shaping, and refining. We are building a space for writers who want rigour, attention, and honesty in their practice. A destination for those who are ready to take their writing…
Feb-March-April workshops at The Story Company India
Links to register for all The Story Company India workshops Feb-March-April The Work of Editing: Structure, Voice, and Judgment. A four-session online workshop with Dr Pallavi Narayan. Dates: Feb 28–March 1 and March 7–8 Format: Four sessions (1.5 hours each) Time: 11 am IST Mode: Online https://forms.gle/4JHuSbFrGWf4ppEf8 Reading Like a Writer – Learning Craft from South Asian Masters…
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Workshop announcement: Writing Through Tough Times
A gentle, sustaining writing practice for when life feels heavy There are seasons when writing feels impossible. Life gathers weight. Caregiving responsibilities expand. Health falters. Professional pressures mount. Emotional fatigue settles in quietly and refuses to leave. You are living through so much that even though material is everywhere, the act of writing feels distant. And yet, this…
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Reading Like a Writer: Learning Craft from South Asian Masters
A Live Online Workshop with Namrata Saturday, March 14Time: 11 AM ISTLive Online on Zoom | 2 Hours There is a popular belief that writing has no rules. And yet, strong stories are rarely accidental. They are built. Carefully. Intentionally. Through choices about silence, structure, interiority, emotional weight, and place. Reading Like a Writer: Learning Craft from South Asian Masters offers…
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Making the Past Come Alive: Research in Historical Fiction
How much research is enough for historical fiction? How do you stay authentic without overwhelming the story with detail? And how do you turn rigorous research into compelling narrative rather than information overload? This two-day online workshop led by Harini Srinivasan is designed to help writers approach historical research with clarity, confidence, and craft. Dates: February 21 and…
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The Work of Editing: Structure, Voice, and Judgment. A four-session online workshop with Dr Pallavi Narayan.
Editing is a practice of close reading and decision-making. It involves working with structure,tone, and emphasis while staying attentive to a text’s voice and context.The Work of Editing: Structure, Voice, and Judgment is a four-session online workshop thatintroduces participants to how editorial work functions in practice. Through discussion andhands-on exercises, the workshop focuses on how…
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Making Place Matter: A World Building Workshop with Meeti Shroff-Shah
What makes a story world feel so real that the reader forgets they are reading? In this three-hour, hands-on workshop, participants will explore the craft of world-building not as a fantasy trope, but as a powerful narrative tool across genres. Through practical exercises, close reading, and discussion, the workshop focuses on building settings that shape character, create tension, and anchor…
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Feb March 2026 Workshops
We are delighted to share The Story Company India’s February–March workshop line-up, a series designed to help writers strengthen their manuscripts through deeper understanding of publishing, research, editing, and world building. Each session is led by experienced publishing and writing professionals and focuses on practical, actionable craft learning. February 21 and 22 | 11 am ISTMaking the…
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Why I Started The Story Company India and our upcoming workshops for February 2026
I started The Story Company India because I wanted to build the space I had once needed. For a long time, I carried a quiet unease about the way writers were expected to find their way. The assumption seemed to be that if you were serious enough, talented enough, determined enough, you would somehow figure it all out on your own. That confusion, that loneliness, that constant second-guessing was…
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How do you reclaim yourself when the day claims you
Most days, I forget me. I slip quietly out of the back door of routine and drudgery. The milk boils, the emails await answers, the laundry needs to be folded and put away. Someone is ill and needs all my attention. Traffic eats up more of my life than I would like. The tedium of conversations that oil the social wheel where my mind is always elsewhere, and my body is wondering at what point would…
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In Bhubaneshwar on Jan 10.
Come say hello. At Walking BookFairs. Am so excited to be at this bookstore, because this isn’t just a bookstore, this is a book store with a story. And that story begins with Satabdi and Akshaya, who piled books into a repurposed ambulance and drove across the length and the breadth of the country. But before that, the duo actually walked through the interiors of Odisha with books, trying to…
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#NotYourAunty: Trumped
From Executive Orders to Inaugural Mishaps: Trumped! In this episode, Shunali Khullar Shroff and I take a live look back at Donald Trump’s first day in office, a whirlwind of executive orders, bold decisions, and unforgettable moments. From George W. Bush’s priceless reaction at the inauguration to Trump’s signature Sharpie-flinging habit, we explore the chaotic yet hilarious start to his…
Season 3 of Not Your Aunty just dropped....
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The Write Circle, Prabha Khaitan Foundation at Kochi
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All Those Who Wander-reviewed by Brinda S. Narayan
The Seductive Perils of Time Travel Monday, August 14, 2023 In earlier eras, those who crossed oceans to ‘discover’ new continents or forge trade linkages were exalted as adventurers and risk-takers. It takes, however, a different kind of courage to journey into one’s own consciousness, to exhume the past and imagine the future, till the present assumes the surreal fleetingness of a dream. For…
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Book Review: All Those Who Wander by Kiran Manral
https://kavyajanani.wordpress.com/2023/03/12/book-review-all-those-who-wander-by-kiran-manral/
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In the Hindustan Times today Kiran Manral, Author: ‘I have become increasingly self-critical over the years’ By Arunima Mazumdar Apr 03, 2023 07:09 PM IST The best selling author and columnist, whose latest book is All Those Who Wander, talks about writing in multiple genres You’ve written books in multiple genres – psychological thrillers, romance, horror, and even parenting. Which genre…
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