Maithreyi Karnoor

Today's Kannadaprabha has carried my interview and an extract from my new novel Hettavara Neralu.
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I'm afraid I'm no longer in India. But all the bookshops on Church St have signed copies. Thanks for your interest. Looks like we share the first two syllables of our names :)

Plugging an year-old article because my bio on it said Gooday Nagar was 'forthcoming'. It is published now 🙂
#GoodayNagar #shortstory #fiction #womenwriting
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The best part is I was among friends. Thank you all for braving the Bangalore traffic and being there for me ☺

We are elated to see @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social’s Gooday Nagar in Elle India’s Must-Read Books of 2026!

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Exactly ten days ago I was signing copies of Gooday Nagar in the bookshops of Church St, Bangalore. It was a lovely feeling :)
#GoodayNagar

We are 'dedicated' readers of each other.
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Congratulations on the book! Hope the happy hormones help you heal soon.

It's still warm to the touch -- like the jalebies and gulab jamoons Jayesh's mother ate as a cure for her diabetes :)

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Gooday Nagar is in the Elle 'Must-Read Books of 2026' list!
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My networking skills at lit fests 😂

I think we have all gone a bit fancy... firangi 😂

The last 2 weeks in India were hard. I was sick the entire time and didn't get much sleep. The constant medication made sure I didn't taste the food I had so eagerly waited to eat. But I launched 2 books of fiction - 1 in Kannada and 1 in English - met friends and experienced a lot of kindness ☺

Honoured and grateful to have my collection of short stories Gooday Nagar formally launched by Jnanpith Awardee Damodar Mouzo baab, and the eloquent, witty, and formidable stage fire lighter Jerry Pinto at the Goa Arts and Literature Festival 2026.
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I saw my book in real for the first time. I sent Rhys a photo of me holding it. Most men might say 'congratulations' or some such. Not my man. He talks about set theory. Why do you think the dedication is what it is? 😆

Come if you are in Goa 😊

Here's the deal. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I'll launch two books on the same day. A novel in Kannada and a short story collection in English. Guess I need wilder dreams 😁
Come to one if not to both. Bangalore 15 Feb.

A little glimpse of my new book. It will have a Goa release on the 13th and a Bangalore release on the 15th this month.

Come for the launch of Gooday Nagar, my new collection of short stories at Beku Cafe, Bengaluru, on the 15th Feb!

I have a new story collection out this month! Watch out for Gooday Nagar ☺
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A lovely but not uncritical response to my novel Hettavara Neralu. If you read Kannada...
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When I hide his fig rolls.

Maithreyi Karnoor's review of Mother Mary Comes to Me 3/5: It is hard to review a memoir. You sound like a voyeur if you comment on the author’s life (notwithstanding the fact that you are there by invitation) and frivolous by commenting on the textualit...

Finished Arundhati Roy's memoirs Mother Mary Comes to Me. My thoughts on Goodreads.
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Maithreyi Karnoor's review of The Elephant Keeper 5/5: If Dickens and Gerald Durrel had had a baby… that’s the thought I had when I began reading this book. And the feeling only got stronger as I read on. The biological impossibility of such a situat...

My review of The Elephant Keeper. 10/10
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Writers in an election year: Remember, we are the joke Come rain or prachand bahumat, a healthy sense of self-deprecatory humour is essential for a writer

My Indian Express article from two years ago sums up my new story collection 'Gooday Nagar' by Westland.
It will be released at the Goa Arts and Lit Fest in Feb. Come if you are around.
#GoodayNagar #MaithreyiKarnoor #ShortStories #WomenWriting

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Everyone is a candlelight vigil waiting to happen. Even those who laugh at those who fell before them.

Had I known poems came true, I'd have written about peace.

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I started the year as a one-book writer, and ended it as a two-book (and a bilingual) writer.
Happy new year :)