The Indian Guardian

  This article is meant to help all independent Indian Or International Artist to find their way up to the top. When you write a song and it plays on TV or the radio, you get paid performance royalties. If you self-publish that song, you  get paid double  because you receive the writer’s share  and  the publisher’s share. So we should all self-publish, right? Well, maybe not. This post will walk you through the pros and cons of self-publishing music and how to get started if you decide self-publishing is the right call for you. But first…. A Quick Reminder Music publishing is the commercial exploitation of a  composition . It is different from the commercial exploitation of a sound recording which is traditionally handled by a record label. Here’s a post I wrote to clarify the difference between a composition and a sound recording. If you’re not clear on the difference, I suggest you read it BEFORE you learn more about self-publishing music. A music publisher’s role includes: 1- Making

  Tired of narratives that obsess over spices, colours and cows on the road? These books, all by Indian writers, paint realistic pictures of the country’s geographical, cultural and political landscapes. 1.  Small Days and Nights  by Tishani Doshi “Return is never the experience you hope for,” Doshi begins, setting the tone for the story of Grace, a young woman coming back to Madras after her mother’s death, to find she has inherited a pink beach house down the coast – and a sister with Down’s syndrome. Small Days and Nights is a compelling story about family, which follows Grace as she slips between Madras, Kodaikanal and Paramankeni, her needs, wants and urges changing with her surroundings as she tries to reconcile desire with duty. A poet, dancer and novelist, Doshi centres the female body in all her work, and it’s through the weight of Grace’s legs, or the lightness in her bones that we, too, feel the effects of the “womb noise” of the sea in Paramankeni, the whiplash of Kodaikana

India has a unique literary history and tradition that extends back over 3,000 years. Indian English literature may have a relatively shorter history, but is nonetheless rich with award-winning and critically acclaimed masterpieces no book lover should miss out on. To get your reading journey started, we’ve rounded up a list of books by authors from India that have greatly influenced the course of the country’s literature. 1. White Tiger Arvind Adiga’s  Man-Booker-Prize-winning debut novel  was widely acclaimed for its refreshing take on social class disparities and contradictions in contemporary India. The book is a thrilling first-person narrative told from the perspective of Balram Halwai, a young man from a poverty-stricken small village who moves to Delhi to work as a chauffeur for the elite. 2. Nectar in a Sieve Acclaimed Indian author Kamala Markandaya’s debut novel,  Nectar in a Sieve , is the story of rapidly changing mid-20th-century India, told from the perspective of Rukhma