Siddharth Chowdhury

Author of The Time of the Peacock

Author of The Time of the Peacock

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Stories by the author

• The many roles editors play in shaping writers and stories

  
  06 Jun 2026 10:22 PM IST
• Can there ever be a Great Indian ‘State of the Nation’ novel?

  
  09 May 2026 10:14 PM IST
• How Patna pegs people to become Darudevils, making safe drinking prohibitionary

  
  04 Apr 2026 10:55 PM IST
• The great Indian non-fiction reading cop-out

  
  31 Jan 2026 11:00 PM IST
• English-medium Hindi language state of mind

  
  03 Jan 2026 11:03 PM IST
• Writer of poetry or prose, hold that pose

  
  20 Dec 2025 10:23 PM IST
• Ink, Ego & Insanity: Eight novels that spill the messy, magnificent truth about the writer’s life

  
  09 Nov 2025 12:06 AM IST
• Bihar may be in full poll mode, but almost everyone from Patna was once à la mode

  
  25 Oct 2025 10:57 PM IST
• Delhi offers anonymity, but in Patna strangers share life stories

  
  06 Sep 2025 11:00 PM IST
• Some things never change in a changing India, they just keep ticking

  
  23 Aug 2025 11:14 PM IST
• Babus & bestsellers: How bureaucrats strike gold with book deals and bulk buys

  
  05 Jul 2025 10:37 PM IST
• Here's a pencil-pusher getting all very pensive

  
  14 Jun 2025 11:06 PM IST
• From Tarzan's canine writer to Chinatown's master: How Robert Towne shaped a writer's pipe dream

  
  19 Apr 2025 11:27 PM IST
• Old songs are like time machines, ride them & let the past play on

  
  22 Mar 2025 11:48 PM IST
• We are all trapped in our gilded cages

  
  15 Feb 2025 11:32 PM IST
• Going into the closet, with a movie-shopping tote bag

  
  18 Jan 2025 11:00 PM IST
• The people's prince, ever enchanting, exasperating

  
  04 Jan 2025 08:50 PM IST
• When your daughter declares you unfit for public viewing: A father's fashion crisis

  
  14 Dec 2024 11:00 PM IST
• Epic bus rides with shades and mixed-up bags

  
  16 Nov 2024 11:32 PM IST
• Remaindered of the Daryaganj day

  
  05 Oct 2024 10:21 PM IST
• View: The indiscreet charm of Nitish Kumar

  
  14 Sep 2024 10:54 PM IST
• We are not alone - at least, not our faces

  
  24 Aug 2024 11:01 PM IST
• The (too) warm-blooded genius of Truman Capote

  
  20 Jul 2024 11:30 PM IST
• A welcome to arms, it's really all about literary swagger

  
  18 May 2024 10:02 PM IST
• The hunger artist, when writing is a per diem exercise

  
  14 Apr 2024 12:20 AM IST
• Editor-author jodi, the word is their cloister

  
  23 Mar 2024 11:00 PM IST
• Real writers, don't write every day, wait for it, wait...

  
  17 Feb 2024 11:07 PM IST
• View: Letter(s) and spirit of postboxed India

  
  09 Dec 2023 08:56 PM IST
• View: When a morning walk can be a lovely dogs’ life

  
  18 Nov 2023 11:00 PM IST
• View: The internet is no match for the printed newspaper

  
  07 Oct 2023 10:19 PM IST
• View: A writer writing about top 10 movies about the upsy-daisy writerly life

  
  16 Sep 2023 10:54 PM IST
• View: 'Aap jaisi koi meri zindagi mein baar baar aye, tho...'

  
  05 Aug 2023 09:23 PM IST
• View: When bookmakers bet on fonts of beauty and love

  
  08 Jul 2023 11:00 PM IST
• Nirala, Dhoomil, Bachchan, Dinkar: Musings on North Indian non-English writers' pen names

  
  06 May 2023 11:00 PM IST
• 2+1 insights on a very Tuscan South Dilli Sunday

  
  11 Mar 2023 11:11 PM IST
• Oh, for that good old laissez faire & lassi fare

  
  11 Feb 2023 11:00 PM IST
• 'MAN-SIZED/I'M HEADING ON/HANDSOME/GOT MY LEATHER BOOTS ON'

  
  07 Jan 2023 11:38 PM IST
• Meeting the uncannily familiar self-made man

  
  5 mins read10 Dec 2022
• Sachidanand Hiranand Vatsayan 'Agyeya': Wrapped in the trappings of his overcoat

  
  08 Oct 2022 09:48 PM IST
• View: A Seikosomatic Encounter and counting the ashariyas of time

  
  27 Aug 2022 11:10 PM IST