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Vadhan Writes
In my blog ,I share my journey as an author of 5 best selling books, and provide writing tips and advice for aspiring authors.


Retirement-What it means to me!
You know, when I first thought of the day I would retire, it was some abstract thing. Like death. One day, it’s going to happen. One day....
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Apr 7, 20232 min read
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Its surprising how many people you find in this world ready to sink you with not a thought of how you helped them the float. It marvels...
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Apr 2, 20233 min read
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Who are Indian Authors Competing With?
English writing Indian authors are growing in numbers. More specifically, the ones that write fiction. But does that mean their...
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Nov 30, 20213 min read
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This Guy, Right?
There was this guy, right? There was this guy. Nice guy on the face of it. Cool. Tall, dark, not necessarily handsome any which way you...
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Sep 18, 20203 min read
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Ten Years-Two Days-Part 2
This is the concluding part of my article, Ten Years-Two Days. While the first part was about how I turned to writing and got my first...
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Sep 7, 20202 min read
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Ten Years-Two Days
I wrote my first sentence to start my story telling journey in 2005. By 2007, my first book was complete after many, many iterations. The...
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Aug 6, 20202 min read
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Not YET another COVID-19 rant!
So, COVID-19 took the world by a storm. Now there’s news (or is it a conspiracy theory?) by a Nobel prize winning scientist who first...
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Apr 20, 20203 min read
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And the New Year…
Writing this on the 30th of December. I would go as far as to call this particular note more in the nature of unbridled thought flow. Or...
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Dec 30, 20192 min read
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Hello Again…Hello
Hello my friends, Here I am again. Been a very busy time. An industrious time. Well spent time with people worth spending it with. I have...
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Dec 21, 20192 min read
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Fear is the Key
The FCPA is a law with extra-terrestrial reach. Which means that though it is an American law (brought into being in 1977 as a reaction...
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Jul 17, 20191 min read
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Hello after a while
So many things have happened in the last few months. A time of great uncertainty has come to an end. It’s true what they say about a door...
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Oct 20, 20182 min read
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Krishna V/s Krishna’s army
I was brought up with anecdotal stories from the great epics of India. The Ramayana and the Mahabharata. While one epic dealt with the...
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Jan 12, 20184 min read
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The Real Me
There is no real me. Seriously, there isn’t. I thought there was. For instance, I am a… lawyer by qualification and profession, A writer...
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Dec 25, 20173 min read
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Ten things to do to be a bestseller!
The big question, isn’t it? What makes something what it is? What makes one book a success and another a failure. Other than the obvious...
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Dec 19, 20172 min read
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Publishing Non-Fiction, Risk of Libel
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. William Shakespeare Nothing could...
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Nov 11, 20174 min read
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A Literary Lawyer for Authors
I love writing. It is the THE love of my life. I am an author of fiction. A published one. I signed up with two different publishers for...
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Nov 5, 20172 min read
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listless
Listless, Waiting for things to come, invoking happy thoughts, know not where from To mute the constant hum of being listless Aimless,...
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Oct 1, 20171 min read
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The One Minute Story
Eshwar was enjoying the rainbow. One of his favourites, the play of colours and elements that created a bow. A natural mood booster....
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Sep 22, 20173 min read
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Are We Independent or Are We Just Free?
On the 71st Independence day for India, I am chipping in with this very relevant excerpt from Agniputr: When Agni First Spoke, my book....
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Aug 14, 20172 min read
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AAAAWW SHADDAP!
Who cares for opinions anyway? Think about it. Do. Does anyone care for your views or my views? Especially if they are dipped in failure...
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Jun 16, 20172 min read
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