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Write India Season 3

Story so far...

75,000 stories made Write India the biggest writing movement ever.

The winners of both Season 1 and Season 2 are now published authors in the book Write India Stories. The book is a compilation of the top winning stories and can be bought from Amazon and Flipkart.

Season 3 was bigger and better with authors like Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, Gulzar, Clare Mackintosh, Nayantara Sahgal, Amish among others bringing in a variety of genres.

India's largest-ever crowd-sourced short story contest will soon be back with Season 4.

We made history and we will recreate it again!

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Vivek Shanbhag

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Kavita Kané

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Jeet Thayil

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Salman Rushdie

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Amish Tripathi

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Amitav Ghosh

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Nayantara Sahgal

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Clare Mackintosh

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Upamanyu Chatterjee

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Gulzar

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Write india facts

  • Season 2 concluded with a grand finale at the Times LitFest Delhi on December 2, 2018.
  • People from all walks of life participated and they wrote for all genres.
  • Write India Season 1 & 2 received a whopping 45,000 entries!
  • The number of new participants in Season 2 was greater than the number of people who had already participated in Season 1. This means that we could encourage more number of people to write!
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  • “[T]he great, irreplaceable potentiality of fiction is that it makes possible the imagining of possibilities.”
    - Amitav Ghosh
  • “We're waiting for a glance or a word, some acknowledgement that we are here.”
    - Jeet Thayil
  • “Words, after all, are nothing by themselves. They burst into meaning only in the minds they’ve entered.”
    - Vivek Shanbhag
  • “Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.”
    - Salman Rushdie
  • "Stories about ordinary men in extraordinary conditions is the story readers will – across generations – relate to."
    - Clare Mackintosh
  • “A good storyteller is the conscience-keeper of a nation.”
    - Gulzar
  • “Whether a man is a legend or not is decided by history, not fortune tellers”
    - Amish Tripathi
  • "Truth is strong medicine. It should be prescribed with great care."
    - Nayantara Sahgal