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How three years at King's College London set me on the road to espionage fiction
Oct 10, 2026
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Life
When I arrived at King's College London in the autumn of 1993, I believed I was training to become a lawyer. I was...
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India's Women of Intelligence
May 14, 2026
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Writing Practices
When we tell the story of espionage in India, the narrative often leans toward shadowy male operatives, imperial intrigue, and modern intelligence agencies…
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1971
May 15, 2026
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Writing Practices
The year 1971 did not simply redraw maps; it cleaved lives. For my family, the Bangladesh Liberation War was not an abstraction of geopolitics or a chapter…
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India's Secret World
May 16, 2026
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Writing Practices
In 1993, as a law student at King's College London, my intellectual world was dominated by statutes, case law, and jurisprudential theory. Yet amid this formalism
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Brighton After Dark
May 18,2026
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Writing Practices
Brighton sells itself as a place of contradictions. Sunlight on the water, Regency façades, a carnival of nightlife…
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Frontline 1971: A Family's War
May 13, 2026
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Writing Practices
I was born in 1974, but my earliest memories are not of toys or schoolbooks—they are of conversations. Low, urgent conversations among elders…
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Mrs Menon
June 07, 2026
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Short Story
Mrs Menon first entered my life on a rain-soaked Thursday evening in Bloomsbury, introduced with casual brevity….
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The History Boys: How the Past Became My Architecture
June 18, 2026
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History
History has always been more than a hobby to me. It is the lens through which I understand the modern world. Ancient empires, colonial intrigues
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The Story as the Last Weapon
July 07, 2026
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Short Story
There is a particular kind of silence that power manufactures. Not the silence of absence but the silence of erasure.
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The Great Game Has Moved East
July 31, 2026
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Short Story
For seventy years, the spy novel has belonged to the Atlantic — Le Carré's Circus, Langley's endless
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The House Behind Harrods
Aug 05, 2026
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Short Story
There is no brass plaque at 8 Herbert Crescent. No name on the door. No sign that tells you what you are looking at. Behind Harrods…
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The Listening Bride: What Raazi Taught Me About Writing Indian Espionage Fiction
Aug 11, 2026
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Writing Practices
Of all the modern Indian films about the Research & Analysis Wing, the one that stayed with me while writing the Hari Vandra series…
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Spies, Steam and Flat Whites
Aug 19, 2026
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Writing Practices
People imagine spy novelists at mahogany desks, surrounded by maps and burner phones. The truth, in my case...
Read Now
The Ministry of Song and Dance: Bollywood, the Indian Intelligence Community, and the Cinema of the Security State
Aug 25, 2026
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Behind the Story
There is a moment in Meghna Gulzar's Raazi (2018) when Sehmat Khan, the Kashmiri girl married into a Pakistani military...
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The Oldest Service in the World: How Eric Frattini's The Entity Shaped The Two Romes
Sep 08, 2026
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Behind the Story
There is a moment in Meghna Gulzar's Raazi (2018) when Sehmat Khan, the Kashmiri girl married into a Pakistani military...
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De Gaulle: Resistance — A Magnificent Portrait of a Man Who Refused to Surrender
Sep 15, 2026
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Movie Review
There are few better places in Brighton to watch a film about history than the Duke of York’s Picturehouse. Sitting proudly at Preston Circus...
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Stanmer Park, and the Birth of Hari Vandra
Sep 26, 2026
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Behind the Story
I enter Stanmer Park from the Lewes Road side, where the traffic's roar fades within a hundred paces into the hush of the South Downs. The land rises in long green…
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The Hound and the Portrait
Oct 06, 2026
:
Behind the Book
There are some stories that arrive quietly. A thought occurs. An image stays in the mind a...
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Blog
How three years at King's College London set me on the road to espionage fiction
Oct 10, 2026
:
Life
When I arrived at King's College London in the autumn of 1993, I believed I was training to become a lawyer. I was...
Read Now
Latest Posts
India's Women of Intelligence
May 14, 2026
:
Writing Practices
When we tell the story of espionage in India, the narrative often leans toward shadowy male operatives, imperial intrigue, and modern intelligence agencies…
Read Now
1971
May 15, 2026
:
Writing Practices
The year 1971 did not simply redraw maps; it cleaved lives. For my family, the Bangladesh Liberation War was not an abstraction of geopolitics or a chapter…
Read Now
India's Secret World
May 16, 2026
:
Writing Practices
In 1993, as a law student at King's College London, my intellectual world was dominated by statutes, case law, and jurisprudential theory. Yet amid this formalism
Read Now
Brighton After Dark
May 18, 2026
:
Writing Practices
Brighton sells itself as a place of contradictions. Sunlight on the water, Regency façades, a carnival of nightlife…
Read Now
The History Boys: How the Past Became My Architecture
June 18, 2026
:
History
History has always been more than a hobby to me. It is the lens through which I understand the modern world. Ancient empires, colonial intrigues
Read Now
Mrs Menon
June 07, 2026
:
Short Story
Mrs Menon first entered my life on a rain-soaked Thursday evening in Bloomsbury, introduced with casual brevity….
Read Now
The Story as the Last Weapon
July 07, 2026
:
Short Story
There is a particular kind of silence that power manufactures. Not the silence of absence but the silence of erasure.
Read Now
The Great Game Has Moved East
July 31, 2026
:
Short Story
For seventy years, the spy novel has belonged to the Atlantic — Le Carré's Circus, Langley's endless
Read Now
Spies, Steam and Flat Whites
Aug 19, 2026
:
Writing Practices
People imagine spy novelists at mahogany desks, surrounded by maps and burner phones. The truth, in my case...
Read Now
The Ministry of Song and Dance: Bollywood, the Indian Intelligence Community, and the Cinema of the Security State
Aug 25, 2026
:
Behind the Story
Every novel has a book behind it — not a source exactly, but a door. For The Two Romes:
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The Oldest Service in the World: How Eric Frattini's The Entity Shaped The Two Romes
Sep 08, 2026
:
Behind the Story
Every novel has a book behind it — not a source exactly, but a door. For The Two Romes:
Read Now
De Gaulle: Resistance — A Magnificent Portrait of a Man Who Refused to Surrender
Sep 15, 2026
:
Movie Review
There are few better places in Brighton to watch a film about history than the Duke of York’s Picturehouse. Sitting proudly at Preston Circus...
Read Now
Stanmer Park, and the Birth of Hari Vandra
Sep 26, 2026
:
Behind the Story
I enter Stanmer Park from the Lewes Road side, where the traffic's roar fades within a hundred paces into the hush of the South Downs. The land rises in long green…
Read Now
The Hound and the Portrait
Oct 06, 2026
:
Behind the Book
There are some stories that arrive quietly. A thought occurs. An image stays in the mind a...
Read Now
Blog
How three years at King's College London set me on the road to espionage fiction
Oct 10, 2026
:
Life
When I arrived at King's College London in the autumn of 1993, I believed I was training to
become a lawyer. I was...
Read Now
Latest Posts
India's Women of Intelligence
May 14, 2026
:
Writing Practices
When we tell the story of espionage in India, the narrative often leans toward shadowy male operatives, imperial intrigue, and modern intelligence agencies…
Read Now
1971
May 15, 2026
:
Writing Practices
The year 1971 did not simply redraw maps; it cleaved lives. For my family, the Bangladesh Liberation War was not an abstraction of geopolitics or a chapter…
Read Now
India's Secret World
May 16, 2026
:
Writing Practices
In 1993, as a law student at King's College London, my intellectual world was dominated by statutes, case law, and jurisprudential theory. Yet amid this formalism
Read Now
Brighton After Dark
May 18, 2026
:
Writing Practices
Brighton sells itself as a place of contradictions. Sunlight on the water, Regency façades, a carnival of nightlife…
Read Now
Mrs Menon
June 07, 2026
:
Short Story
Mrs Menon first entered my life on a rain-soaked Thursday evening in Bloomsbury, introduced with casual brevity….
Read Now
The History Boys: How the Past Became My Architecture
June 18, 2026
:
History
History has always been more than a hobby to me. It is the lens through which I understand the modern world. Ancient empires, colonial intrigues
Read Now
The Story as the Last Weapon
July 07, 2026
:
Short Story
There is a particular kind of silence that power manufactures. Not the silence of absence but the silence of erasure.
Read Now
The Great Game Has Moved East
July 31, 2026
:
Short Story
For seventy years, the spy novel has belonged to the Atlantic — Le Carré's Circus, Langley's endless
Read Now
Spies, Steam and Flat Whites
Aug 19, 2026
:
Writing Practices
People imagine spy novelists at mahogany desks, surrounded by maps and burner phones. The truth, in my case...
Read Now
The Ministry of Song and Dance: Bollywood, the Indian Intelligence Community, and the Cinema of the Security State
Aug 25, 2026
:
Behind the Story
There is a moment in Meghna Gulzar's Raazi (2018) when Sehmat Khan, the Kashmiri girl married into a Pakistani military...
Read Now
The Oldest Service in the World: How Eric Frattini's The Entity Shaped The Two Romes
Sep 08, 2026
:
Behind the Story
Every novel has a book behind it — not a source exactly, but a door. For The Two Romes:
Read Now
De Gaulle: Resistance — A Magnificent Portrait of a Man Who Refused to Surrender
Sep 15, 2026
:
Movie Review
There are few better places in Brighton to watch a film about history than the Duke of York’s Picturehouse. Sitting proudly at Preston Circus...
Read Now
Stanmer Park, and the Birth of Hari Vandra
Sep 26, 2026
:
Behind the Story
I enter Stanmer Park from the Lewes Road side, where the traffic's roar fades within a hundred paces into the hush of the South Downs. The land rises in long green…
Read Now
The Hound and the Portrait
Oct 06, 2026
:
Behind the Book