Radhika Maira Tabrez
Winner
Muse India-Satish Verma Young Writer Award 2016
THE BOOKS
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IN THE LIGHT OF DARKNESS
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Twenty years ago, Susan Pereira had to send her only child Matthew, to a faraway boarding school. That one decision brought their relationship to a cul-de-sac, which she still hasnt been able tobreak out of. Matthew is too distant and too angry to relent.
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Meera Vashishth's misguided love left her bruised, shattered and abandoned, only to be found and healed by Susan.
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Set on a fictional Indian island paradise called Bydore, In The Light Of Darkness is a journey of broken souls looking for closure and new beginnings. Does Susan manage to win back her son? Does Matthew find the future his mother hoped he would? Does Meera finally get away from her past.
Defiant Dreams
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Defiant Dreams: Tales of Everyday Divas is a collection of twenty-four handpicked through a nationwide contest. It is a collage of love and patience, courage and determination. Between the covers is a chronicle of dreams that refuse to be crushed by the heel of life's injustices. The tales are portraits of everyday women rising to extraordinary challenges; women who transformed themselves into mistresses of their own destinies. From the lanes of Banaras to the hills of Assam, from the high rises of Delhi to the household courtyards down south, across urban landscapes and rural settings, these incredible women are here to inspire
When They Spoke
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Remember those toddler years when we could be sold any story about how the trees, books, tables, walls, and particularly, all our toys would come to life when it turned dark and we slept? They would talk and play till the wee hours when the entire household came awake. The inanimates told their stories.
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As we grew up, we lost the faith that any inanimate or lifeless thing can actually see, hear or feel, let alone articulate itself, and with that, we lost their perspectives.
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When They Spoke brings back that lost story.. recreates that magic of having inanimate beings narrate tales.. tales that actually show how they are entwined in every aspect of our lives, regardless of how unaware, indifferent or ignorant we are.
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Born out of a nationwide short story competition organised by the Delhi Literature Festival and Readomania, When They Spoke is a collection of 29 short stories that are narrated by inanimate things like a house, a safety pin, a tree, a mountain, a door and many more.