Platform Magazine

As Amish Tripathi’s new book, Raavan - Enemy of Aryavarta, hits stores, we bring you excerpts from his powerful talk with journalist Kaveree Bamzai at @TheQuorumClub @authoramish #newread @kavereeb #RaavanEnemyOfAryavarta bit.ly/2Gg1mm2

'I put on my headphones before going to bed every night, to remind myself why I am gonna wake up again tomorrow.' @karshkalemusic all his quirks & secrets: platform-mag.com #TuesdayThoughts

Sujoy Ghosh: Big Digital Debut! The filmmaker's much awaited horror story, Typewriter, is making all the right noise. Coming soon to Netlfix. Until then, get your fix here: bit.ly/2XI0ZLX @sujoy_g @NetflixIndia @Purab_Kohli

Nawazuddin Siddiqui: 'Stardom and fame aren’t things I’m chasing, in fact, they scare me because I don’t want to ever get complacent about my work. All I know is that I want to feel challenged.' Photograph: @Ishikamohan #platformagazine #platformquote @Nawazuddin_S

We got in touch with the distinguished novelist, memoirist, Professor of Comparative Literature at Columbia University, Nobel Prize winner, Orhan Pamuk; and Maureen Freely, who has translated many of his titles in English. bit.ly/2SbqOOy #NobelPrize #literature

My first memory of music... I remember banging on the piano in my mum’s friend’s house.’ @thenitinsawhney shares some of his quirks & secrets. Head here: platform-mag.com #nitinsawhney #music #platformag

The spoken word poet, activist, writer and touring performer, @oliviagatwood's second collection of poetry touches upon violence faced by women and society's way of romanticising it. It’s about dead girls, the aftermath, healing and recovery. bit.ly/2LEGiJt #Poetry

#noblemen, directed by Vandana Kataria is an important film starring @kapoorkkunal in the lead. It is the story of a 15-year-old boy who is struggling with his adolescent years and is terrorized by a gang of bullies in a boarding school. More here: bit.ly/2Nk78cj

Nemat Sadat narrates how it’s like to be Homosexual in Afghanistan in his new book. On stands now! We got in touch: bit.ly/2Lqy4ou @PenguinIndia @nematsadat #nematsadat #pride #NewRelease

Sandeep Rai, Chief of City Operations, @TeachForIndia: ‘We have a deep injustice in India, that’s impacting hundreds of millions of children. It threatens the moral fabric of our society and our future. That story needs to be told.’ bit.ly/2J5Dnba His new book is out now

The one lesson in life you have learnt and want to pass on? ‘Not to take life too seriously.’ Konkona Sen Sharma shares some of her quirks & secrets... Head here: platform-mag.com @konkonas #films #indiefilms #actorstalk #platformag

Vicky Kaushal: ‘The most amazing thing about acting is you get an opportunity to face your darkest side and confront it and come through it. And the best part is you know its temporary and you will come out of it.’ @vickykaushal09 #filmtalk #platformquote bit.ly/2XxfrFT

Sometimes overpreparation kills the spontaneity, says the actor who is headed to Hollywood after #leila. In conversation with Huma Qureshi: bit.ly/2LiZAE2 @humasqureshi @NetflixIndia @IamDeepaMehta #adaptations

Five women in Publishing who have helped shape the careers of celebrated writers and found a suitable space for their stories. bit.ly/2NcNG1p @arpitayodapress @TaraBooks @MitaKapur #shrutidebi @ZubaanBooks #books #womeninpublishing #literaryagents

Shanay Jhaveri: ‘We must never be seduced by the contemporary, and try to reorient the present to the modern and the historical, and while doing so test our own imaginations.’ #platformquote @ShanayJ #art #artfair bit.ly/2Y7Qu0N

Sayani Gupta: ‘I can’t do something I can’t watch. I don’t want to do something that is misogynist or stupid. After all, it is my body of work.’ #platformquote @sayanigupta #film #article15 #music #design #fashion #art #literature #sayanigupta

Radhika Vaz: ‘Any experience, no matter how painful it is in the moment can be humorous later on and often it’s the only way to deal with the ups and downs that life hands you.’ @radvaz

#Jessicacohen: ‘Translators joke about whether it’s better to work with dead authors or living ones (some swear they prefer the former) but on the rare occasions when I’ve translated works by dead authors, I felt that there was a whole dimension missing.’ bit.ly/2WNPhKB

Deepa Mehta: ‘Leila is a journey of choice and dignity.’ The auteur tells us she was clear what her new dystopian web series would be, and would not be like. bit.ly/2Io5W3u Streaming now on #Netflix. @IamDeepaMehta #leila @humasqureshi

Meera Syal: ‘I think I find prose the most satisfying, just because I love that intimacy of the connection you have with your reader, that thrill knowing someone is opening your book and you are speaking just to them.’ @MeeraSyal #books #words #platformag