Thoughts from South Asia | Kulpreet Yadav South Asia matters! It's a place where ideas thrive, people live their stories with candid charm, humans breathe art, and all things living assimilate music like a second nature. This is a place where originality prevails over the hype and the talent nurtures with neglect. But things might just be changing. In my column I will try to spot these changes, see if they really matter and showcase them as they are. Kulpreet Yadav is an Indian novelist who also loves to write shorter fiction and travelogues. Many of his works have found place in some of the best publications from around the world. His new novel, A Waiting Wave was conceived and written at Port Blair where he lived alone for a year researching the islands and imagining ways to sustain love. Kulpreet can be reached at kulpreetyadav [at] gmail [dot] com. You can visit his blog here. Change Shapes India Inside and Out | November 2011 Bookstores have accumulated energies of several hundred thousand people, and you as a customer can’t have enough of it. Each book is like a fresh new life; each life – or lives – trapped in it is a refreshing revelation. Don't Worry, Be Happy: and other May thoughts from South Asia | May 2011 The children in the cars, who are comfortably seated in air conditioned spaces where a favorite song is playing through the perfumed air seem invariably lost in thoughts. Their minds seem to run ahead of them, working out future plans considered very important and in which they have no choice. February Thoughts | February 2011 Mr. Lal’s love for books was so deep-routed and his idea of books so unique that he hand-bound the books himself in lovely and colorful Indian sarees (the traditional clothing of Indian women) cloth pieces from his house at Kolkata, in north east India, and the book numbers were kept as low as 100, something like a limited edition. December Thoughts | December 2010 Why do crazy people spot and erase such geniuses? John Lennon’s gone for thirty years now. |