In this episode, we sit down with Sunil M S as he takes us to his glitching world and the interesting characters who are battling it out.About Sunil M SSunil M S was born in Dharwad, Karnataka, and grew up on a steady diet of books by Stephen King, Haruki Murakami, Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Asimov, Zelazny and more. His journey as a writer began in 2009 with narrative poems which evolved into flash fiction, short stories, and now his second novel – Whispers in the Void.His first novel, Song of the Whale, was published in 2021.Follow the Author:X:https://x.com/keypounderInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shadowtrail/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunil-m-s-5736bb26/About the Book Reality cracks. Time leaks. The world will end in 102 days.A message appears on every digital device on Earth: reality is a simulation―and it's shutting down. As the world descends into chaos and eerie “glitches” begin to warp the fabric of existence, five strangers―a jaded journalist, an atheist novelist, a love-struck cabbie, the Prime Minister of India, and a lonely bartender―grapple with the meaning of life, memory, and love in a universe that may not be real. But if nothing is real, what do we hold on to?Grab a copy: https://amzn.to/45EKC2Q----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------WHO ARE WE?A literary consultancy based in Mumbai, we work with authors and publishers to polish, publish, and promote their books.Know more about us on our website: https://keemiyacreatives.com/ORWrite to us at contact@keemiyacreatives.com

In this episode of The WIP Show, we sit down with Dr. Aruna Kalra—renowned obstetrician, gynaecologist, and advocate for women's health—to discuss her groundbreaking book, I Want a Boy.Drawing from over 25 years of clinical practice, Dr. Kalra shares powerful real-life patient experiences that shed light on the deep-rooted issue of gender bias and son preference in India. This conversation explores how these cultural pressures continue to shape reproductive decisions across generations, and what it means for women’s autonomy, mental health, and social value.I Want a Boy is more than a book—it’s a heartfelt call for awareness, reflection, and reform. Dr. Kalra speaks with compassion, clarity, and urgency on why this mindset must change.🔸 About Dr. Aruna KalraDr. Kalra is a leading voice in Indian obstetrics and gynaecology, specializing in safe motherhood, high-risk pregnancies, and minimally invasive surgeries. She is also a strong advocate for gender justice and maternal rights.🔸About the BookAn estimated 4-12 million female foetuses have been aborted in the past three decades, and the brutal killings still continue. In an era of technological innovation and evolving social values, one would expect traditional biases to be a thing of the past. Yet, in this compelling narrative, Dr Aruna Kalra, a practising gynaecologist, reveals the persistent and heartbreaking desire for a male child among her patients, showing that deeply ingrained cultural norms still hold strong. Her autobiographical I Want a Boy captures the absurd lengths her patients adopt in their quest for a son. The plea for a male heir resonates everywhere, whether in upmarket maternity homes or in chaotic government hospitals where the author did her three-year residency at the start of her career. This powerful book, peppered with personal anecdotes, is also a commentary on the repeated pregnancies, selective abortions, and outdated rituals for a boy baby that our society endorses, all of which strip women of their self-respect, autonomy, and well-being.Grab a copy: https://amzn.to/4onOu0G👉 Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more powerful conversations on The WIP Show.#TheWIPShow #DrArunaKalra #IWantABoy #GenderBias #WomenHealth #India #SonPreference #Podcast #Feminism #MaternalHealth #SocialChange-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------WHO ARE WE?A literary consultancy based in Mumbai, we work with authors and publishers to polish, publish, and promote their books.Know more about us on our website: https://keemiyacreatives.com/ORWrite to us at contact@keemiyacreatives.com

In Other Words – A new segment on The WIP Show(Writing in Progress)Behind every great book that crosses languages, there is a translator crafting each sentence with care.In Other Words celebrates these literary bridge-builders.Each episode, we talk to a translator about their journey, their process, and the kind of work they’re looking for.Our guest today is Salini Vineeth.About Salini VineethSalini Vineeth is a fiction writer and translator based in Bangalore. She worked for ten years as an engineer before turning to full-time writing. Since then, she has published five books – Lost Edges (novel), Magic Square (novella), Everyday People (a short story collection), and travel guides for Hampi and Badami. She has also translated three books from English to Malayalam: Tom Sawyer, Alice in Wonderland, and Chuck and Gek. She's currently translating the English translation of Mrugaya (a famous Odia play by Biswajit Das) into Malayalam. She is the fiction editor of Mean Pepper Vine, a quarterly literary magazine. She has also published several short stories in prestigious literary magazines. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------WHO ARE WE?A literary consultancy based in Mumbai, we work with authors and publishers to polish, publish, and promote their books.Know more about us on our website: https://keemiyacreatives.com/ORWrite to us at contact@keemiyacreatives.com

In Other Words – A new segment on The WIP Show(Writing in Progress)Behind every great book that crosses languages, there’s a translator crafting each sentence with care.In Other Words celebrates these literary bridge-builders.Each episode, we talk to a translator about their journey,their process, and the kind of work they’re looking for.Our guest today is Vaibhav SharmaAbout Vaibhav SharmaVaibhav Sharma is a translator and poet from India. He was mentored by International Booker Prize-winning translator Daisy Rockwell under the 2023 NCW Emerging Translators Mentorship Program. His work has been published in Out of Print, Words Without Borders, Hans, Modern Poetry in Translation, The Bombay Literary Magazine and Himal magazine. He was shortlisted for the Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation in 2023 and the Mozhi Prize in 2024. His debut translation, Under the Night Jasmine, came out in February 2024. His translation of Anil Yadav’s story collection, Courtesans Don’t Read Newspapers, is forthcoming from Penguin India in 2025.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------WHO ARE WE?A literary consultancy based in Mumbai, we work with authors and publishers to polish, publish, and promote their books.Know more about us on our website: https://keemiyacreatives.com/ORWrite to us at contact@keemiyacreatives.com

In Other Words – A new segment on The WIP Show(Writing in Progress)Behind every great book that crosses languages, there’s atranslator crafting each sentence with care.In Other Words celebrates these literary bridge-builders.Each episode, we talk to a translator about their journey,their process, and the kind of work they’re looking for.Our guest today is V. Iswarya About V. Iswarya V. Iswarya is a translator and critic. She teaches English literature at the Department of Liberal Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Bangalore. Apart from her research publications in academic journals and anthologies, she has written essays on Tamil film culture for popular publications as part of her social media campaign “Calling Out Stalking.” She was shortlisted twice for the Mozhi Prize and her translations of Tamil writer B. Jeyamohan's essays have appeared in the Frontline magazine. Her first book-length translation was Perumal Murugan's memoir "Students Etched in Memory" (Penguin Random House India, 2025).-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------WHO ARE WE?A literary consultancy based in Mumbai, we work with authors and publishers to polish, publish, and promote their books.Know more about us on our website: https://keemiyacreatives.com/ORWrite to us at contact@keemiyacreatives.com

In Other Words – A new segment on The WIP Show(Writing in Progress)

Behind every great book that crosses languages, there’s atranslator crafting each sentence with care.

In Other Words celebrates these literary bridge-builders.

Each episode, we talk to a translator about their journey,their process, and the kind of work they’re looking for.

About Varsha Tiwary

Varsha is a writer and translator based in Delhi. 1990, Aramganj is her translation of the Hindi novel Rambhakt Rangbaz, published by Westland. She is also a fellow at Himalayan Writing Retreat 2025 fellowship for emerging writers.

In this episode, we spoke to author and screenwriter Rochelle Potkar about her latest book, The D'Costa Family.About Rochelle PotkarFictionist | Poet | ScreenwriterRochelle Potkar is an alumna of Iowa’s International Writing Program (2015) and a Charles Wallace Writer’s fellow, University of Stirling (2017). She is the author of Four Degrees of Separation (poetry) and Paper Asylum (haibun) – shortlisted for the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2020, Bombay Hangovers (short fiction), and her latest poetry collection Coins in Rivers.Her poetry film Skirt showcased on Shonda Rhimes’ Shondaland. Her poems To Daraza won the 2018 Norton Girault Literary Prize UK, and The girl from Lal Bazaar was shortlisted at the Gregory O’ Donoghue International Poetry Prize, 2018. Widely-anthologized, she has read her poetry in India, Bali, Iowa, Macao, Stirling, Glasgow, Hongkong, Ukraine, Hungary, Bangladesh, Dubai, and the Gold Coast, Australia. Her writings have been translated into Arabic, Hungarian, French, Spanish, Hindi, Marathi, and German. She also co-authored The Coordinates of Us/ सर्व अंशांतून आपण – a bilingual cross-translation of English/Marathi poetry. As a poetry book critic, her reviews have appeared in Wasafiri, Sahitya Akademi’s Indian Literature, Asian Cha, and Chandrabhaga.Her first screenplay ‘A Brown coat’ was a quarter-finalist at the Atlanta Film Festival Screenwriting Competition 2020. She is an industry expert on syllabi boards (English Lit.) of two top Mumbai universities. She was invited for four consecutive years as a creative-writing mentor to Iowa’s prestigious International Writing Programs, Summer Institute 2019 and Between the Lines 2022, 2023, 2024. She conducts regular online poetry workshops at the Himalayan Writing Retreat. https://rochellepotkar.com.Her handles on Instagram and Twitter: @rochellepotkar.About the Book:The Goan-Indian D'Costa family descends into glorious chaos after patriarch Don Theodore's death. His widow Rita, who never loved him, launches a campaign to install their gravedigger son Jason as the new Don, bribing tenants, and manipulating family members. Meanwhile, her pregnant daughter-in-law Annette juggles a secret lover, stolen jewelry, and an accidental shooting, while Inspector Gaitonde - allergic to family drama - stumbles upon the D'Costas' most absurd secret beneath Jason's manicured graveyard. As real estate schemes collapse, guns are mishandled, and a Catholic-Hindu wedding spirals into hullabaloo, Rita recognizes the madness of the patriarchal power game she had been playing, finding unexpected solidarity with the tenants she once chose to exploit. The D'Costa Family is a wild ride packed with over-the-top characters and crazy twists that come fast and unexpected - sometimes emotional, sometimes macabre, but always gripping.Buy the Book: https://amzn.to/45JCFLp-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------WHO ARE WE?A literary consultancy based in Mumbai, we work with authors and publishers to polish, publish, and promote their books.Know more about us on our website: https://keemiyacreatives.com/ORWrite to us at contact@keemiyacreatives.com

In this episode, we spoke to author Krishna Kumar where he discussed his debut novel The Ferryman, the inspiration behind it, and his writing journey.Author BioKrishnakumar is a Software Engineer based in the beautiful city of Pondicherry, India. An avid reader since childhood, he owns a personal collection of nearly a thousand books. Interested in writing fiction, he has done some stints penning down short stories for competitions in both Tamil and English. Pursuing his love for horror fiction, taking inspiration from the writings of Stephen King and Joe Hill, The Ferryman is his first full-fledged novel. About The FerrymanAdithya is bitter when he is forced to accept the delivery of an antique bed on behalf of his neighbor. The large and majestic bed occupies his whole bedroom. Every time he sleeps on it, he has nightmares. He dreams about killing different people with whom he had disputes. And at the end of it all, he wakes up devastated, completely drained. When he soon learns that the people whom he had killed in his dreams have also died in real life—passing away naturally in their sleep—he begins to realize the power the bed wields. What follows is a macabre series of events as the monstrosity and deep dark desires of the human mind are unleashed by a power so horrific, that escaping it seems hopeless.Buy the Book: https://amzn.to/4i64aCq---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------WHO ARE WE?A literary consultancy based in Mumbai, we work with authors and publishers to polish, publish, and promote their books.Know more about us on our website: https://keemiyacreatives.com/ORWrite to us at contact@keemiyacreatives.com