Vikram Chandra

@VikramChandra
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Writer, teacher. I make stories and software. Books: Geek Sublime, Sacred Games, Love and Longing in Bombay, Red Earth and Pouring Rain. Software: Granthika.
Cracker is so, so good. Am trying to savour it but am speeding through. Robbie Coltrane's performance is a masterclass, set off by a glorious supporting cast. And the writing is brilliant! https://screenrant.com/cracker-show-groundbreaking-british-thriller/
Roger Rosenblatt: "[Writers are] a bad lot on the whole —petty, nasty, bilious, suffused with envy and riddled with fear." In case you don't know, Rosenblatt is a distinguished novelist, memoirist, and essayist.
I just published a mega-mega-thread about tools for writers on Twitter. Please read it there before Elon burns everything to the ground with his Musk-madness. I'd cross-post the entire thread here but it'd take too long. https://twitter.com/typingvanara/status/1590869410519998464?s=20&t=90KzxyGndgF1Rids5T9nVA
Vikram Chandra on Twitter

“Anthony Trollope counselled writers to "let their work be to them as is his common work to the common labourer." Here, for my tribe of ink-stained wretches, is a thread about tools for our toils. I'm a writer--I've published four books… https://t.co/R6MPR5wak4 1/”

Twitter

Suggesting that those of us who have figured out Mastodon enough to follow friends, fellow seekers, colleagues and other interesting people should do a post introducing them so that others can find them too.

I suggest these be hashtagged #TrunkCalls, unless something else exists?

Here’s 10 to start off with, comrades from the blogging era.
@nilanjanaroy
@samitbasu
@MitaliSaran
@rahulbhatia
@nixxin
@Nadika
@Calamur
@Reddymadhavan
@sharanyamanivannan
@anniezaidi
@sridala

Your turn.