What I read and wrote and published and how I fared
Author: Amita Basu
I'm a writer based in Bangalore, India.
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Night
Dark short story published in The Dalhousie Review (Summer 2022)
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The Revolutionaries
Alternative history. If the political-historical relations of two nations were reversed, would the characters of the nation’s peoples be reversed too?
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Re:Birth
A grieving mother has shut herself away from the world. Can she rediscover love and life?
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Courage Anniversary
Astrid has a dream. Pleo likes dreamers. What could go wrong? In this story written in 2020 I dip my toes back into magic realism.
Read a lot, but not enough. Several unfinished WIPs. A fair number of publications, including in four good magazines . Attended my first writing workshop online; it was fruitful. Joined the volunteer staff of two lit mags. Grew my circle of critique partners. Spent most of the year working on short fiction, a new experience for me. Discovered several authors I plan to read more of, and revisited some old favourites.
Visually resplendent, and laudable for its environmental messaging, this film suffers from an underdeveloped story, incoherent editing, flat characters, and a resolution that resolves nothing. “Humans = bad, greed = bad, and living with nature = good.” I guess that’s a message we can all stand to be reminded of, but I do wish the packaging were more artful.
An entertaining and neatly-fitting little puzzlebox, much like the one in the opening sequence.
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Monthly Review: December 2022
A slow month for reading and writing. Stocktaking underway. Working on revisions of a few longer stories.
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Retreat
It’s easy to chafe against your privilege, to resent it as constricting. But what happens when a tiny incident shows you the extent to which your privilege protects you from life’s tooth and claw?
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