Sonali Dev's Blog, page 4

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/shes-9... I watched this video this morning and then again this afternoon and learned something about myself. The first time I watched it I thought Mrs. Lewis was adorable. In that “Aww, I love old people” sort of way. Because I really do. I think of my grandparents ever single day and miss them terribly. […]

I found this article about Parveen Babi this morning and was struck by its melancholy air. Not that it wasn’t consistent with almost everything that’s ever been written about the actress in the past few decades. For those of you unfamiliar with her, Parveen Babi was a huge Bollywood star in the 70s and 80s when I […]

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The Bollywood Bride, my second novel, comes out tomorrow and naturally this means I’ve been all over the internet talking about everything from my writing process to marriage to how to cook rice pudding. And here it all is for you to wade through at your leisure… Why I, a Diehard Feminist and Romantic, Had […]

I wrote this fan-mommy blogpost ten years ago (2005!). Way back, before I thought of myself as a writer and certainly way before I dreamed of being published. I opened it up today in a fit of nostalgia induced by all the hullabaloo over Harry and Ginny’s oldest starting at Hogwarts. The awkward turns of phrase notwithstanding, I loved remembering some […]

Ria would have given anything to be left alone, but she knew being left alone was not in a Bollywood star’s job description. Not even if you were universally acknowledged as a freakish recluse and rather aptly nicknamed The Ice Princess.  Did ice princesses battle beaded fabric? And lose? Ria tugged at the dress pulled […]

It is fitting that I write romance. Creating heroes isn’t hard for me. Loyal successful solid men aren’t imaginary in my world. Like all red-blooded females, of course I male-bash, more so because I know that all men are NOT dogs, so the ones who are deserve all the claws they get. But truth be told, […]

First (because really, I have to start this post with that word), The RITA®s are The Oscars of the Romance genre in Publishing. Only, instead of a golden man, the trophy is a golden woman who’s reading and she’s handed out to winners in twelve categories in a super glamorous awards ceremony at the Romance Writers of America Annual […]

Exactly 5 years ago today I wrote ‘The End’ on my first finished manuscript. I remember having this indescribable breathless feeling, with the fullness of having done something significant on one hand and the emptiness of having no idea what to do next on the other. I remember just sitting there and staring at the manuscript […]

Yesterday I read the opinions expressed by the Delhi rapists (5 men who brutally raped and beat a 23 year old medical student to death 3 years ago and are still awaiting sentencing) as they were expressed on INDIA’S DAUGHTER a BBC documentary set to air this weekend. My first reaction was RAGE. Yes, in all caps […]