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Siddhartha Gigoo

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Reviews and Interviews

REVIEWS

EXCERPTS & COVERAGE

INTERVIEWS

A Fistful of Earth and Other Stories reviewed in Daily News and Analysis


A Fistful of Earth and Other Stories reviewed in Kitaab


A Fistful of Earth and Other Stories featured in Scroll


The Garden of Solitude reviewed in LA Review of Books


The Garden of Solitude in Good Reads


The Umbrella Man in Good Reads


The Garden of Solitude in NewsClick


The Garden of Solitude in Countercurrents


The Garden of Solitude in The News International


The Garden of Solitude in The Nation


A Long Dream of Home reviewed in Open Magazine


A Long Dream of Home in Daily News and Analysis


Lost Voices from the Valley: A Long Dream of Home featured in The Hindu


The Last Day reviewed in The Hindu


The Last Day featured in The Indian Express


Mehr (A Love Story)


Mehr (A Love Story)


A Fistful of Earth and Other Stories reviewed in Daily Excelsior


A Fistful of Earth and Other Stories: A Review


A Fistful of Earth and Other Stories in NorthEast Review


Blood on Forehead - A review of The Garden of Solitude in Greater Kashmir


The Garden of Solitude reviewed in The Hungry Reader


Research Papers


Displacement, Memory, and a Longing for the Lost Paradise: A Study of Siddhartha Gigoo’s The Garden of Solitude published in Humanicus journal of social sciences, humanities and philosophy


A research paper on The Garden of Solitude in The Criterion


A research paper on The Garden of Solitude in The Literary Herald


A paper on The Garden of Solitude in Journal of Postcolonial Literature

INTERVIEWS

EXCERPTS & COVERAGE

INTERVIEWS

On The Umbrella Man's winning the Commonwealth Short Story Award 2015 Asia. (Soundcloud)


A Slave of my Characters: Siddhartha Gigoo in The Hindustan Times


Siddhartha Gigoo in Outlook 


Through an observer’s eyes: A conversation with author Siddhartha Gigoo in Journal of Postcolonial Writing 


Siddhartha Gigoo In Focus in Cerebration


Once When History Happened in The Hindu


Our Diary of Anne Frank in The Hindu


An Exile's Odyssey in Dawn


Notes from an Exile's Diary in The Hindu


Longing for Home in The Hindustan Times


Mehr (A Love Story) in The Asian Age


A Window to Creative Writing in The Hindu


On Writing in Mathrubhumi


Dreaming of Home in The Tribune


An Interview with Siddhartha Gigoo in New Asian Writing


Memory is an act of preservation in Swaraja Magazine


Conversations in Daily News and Analysis


The Last Day featured in The Times of India


The Garden of Solitude in Reuters


A Long Dream of Home featured In The Good Book Corner


On Music and Writing - Interview with Tehelka


Reclaiming roots through writing: An interview in Rising Kashmir


Recounting stories - An interview in Greater Kashmir


Appearances at Literature Festivals


Chronicles of Exile - Jaipur Literature Festival 2015


Siddhartha Gigoo reading at Jaipur Literature Festival 2015


Homeland Tales: Siddhartha Gigoo at Kala Ghoda Arts Festival 2015


Siddhartha Gigoo at Pune International Literature Festival 2015


At the Cork International Short Story Festival


At Literati: Chandigarh Literature Festival)


Television Appearances


When Home is a Dream - The launch of A Long Dream of Home

NDTV We The People by Barkha Dutt


Interview with Barkha Dutt


Siddhartha Gigoo interview with India Today Channel


Understanding J&K: The Plight of Kashmiri Pandits (Interview with The Wire)

EXCERPTS & COVERAGE

EXCERPTS & COVERAGE

EXCERPTS & COVERAGE

A Long Season of Ashes (2024)


The narrative follows a non-linear trajectory, frequently jumping between decades and locations. This blurs time and space, reflecting how the milestones and daily rhythms of life are suspended in exile. The memoir’s disjointed nature, intensified by the variety of formats Gigoo uses — diary entries, letters, text fragments, and conversation snippets — further underscores the punctuated nature of the lives... Review in Hindustan Times



The continuum of Time - The legacy of exile, as Gigoo eloquently explores, is one that transcends generations... In Scroll



I don’t want to stop. This is not the end. This must not be the end... In Outlook India


Love in the Time of Quarantine (2020)


Excerpted in Hindustan Times

Excerpted in Scroll

Writing a book in 21 days in YourStory

Love in the Time of Quarantine - Podcast


The Lion of Kashmir (2020)


Kashmir comes to the reader as a series of perceptions of reality in Siddhartha Gigoo’s new novel in Scroll


Review of The Lion of Kashmir in Across The Margin (A New York based journal)


An Excerpt - The Lion of Kashmir -  in The Quint


The Lion of Kashmir, Siddhartha Gigoo’s third and latest novel, grapples with unanswerable questions about the Valley.

in The Wire


An Interview in Mathrubhumi


Mehr (A Love Story)


In Scroll

In Hindustan Times

In Scroll

In Muse India

In The Punch Magazine

In New Asian Writing

In Kashmir INK

In Outlook

In The Week

In Tehelka

In News Nation

In Sakal Times

In Business Standard


A Long Dream of Home (The Persecution, Exodus and Exile of Kashmiri Pandits) Edited by Siddhartha Gigoo and Varad Sharma

Bloomsbury India (2015)


In Caravan


In The Mint


In News Laundry


In Scroll


In Muse India


In Outlook


In The News Minute


In The Wire


In Firstpost


In Scroll


The Garden of Solitude


An Excerpt in Kafila


A Fistful of Earth and Other Stories


An excerpt from A Secret Life in The Punch Magazine



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