Writer
मंथन शर्मा Manthan Sharma
Stories, poems, and stray thoughts on love, distance, and the small work of becoming someone new. Author of the Hindi novel Bicchdan.
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Stories, poems, and stray thoughts on love, distance, and the small work of becoming someone new. Author of the Hindi novel Bicchdan.
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Manthan Sharma writes fiction, poetry, and the occasional stray thought — mostly in Hindi, sometimes in English, always in whatever language a piece first arrives in. His debut novel, Bicchdan, follows two people learning to live apart from each other, and slowly, apart from who they used to be.
Between longer projects, he keeps a running record of shorter work here — stories, poems, and the odd argument he's still having with himself.
The debut novel — available now on Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing.
Riya and Arjun once believed love was enough to keep two people together. Bicchdan begins where that belief ends — on a station platform, in a silence neither of them chose — and follows what grows in the space separation leaves behind.
A novel about the particular ache of missing someone you're still, in some way, connected to — and the slow, unglamorous work of becoming whole on your own.
Buy on Amazon ↗A running record of shorter work — some connected to Bicchdan, most not. New pieces added regularly.
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