Samiksha Ransom, Author at Pippa Rann Books & Media

Samiksha Ransom

Samiksha Ransom is a writer from Allahabad, India. Her work has appeared in The Chakkar, Tint Journal, EKL Review, JAKE, The Friday Poem, The Wave (by Kelp Journal), Kunzum Review and more. Her work was shortlisted for the Poets in Vogue Challenge by the Young Poets Network, UK, in partnership with the National Poetry Library’s Poets in Vogue exhibition in 2023. She also shares reflections on writing and reading through her newsletter, Letters from Sam. She is on Instagram as @samiksha_ransom

Interview / Tabish Khair

Born in 1966 in Ranchi and educated up to his MA in Gaya, Bihar, Tabish Khair did a PhD from Copenhagen University and is now an associate professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. His scholarly books include Babu Fictions (OUP, 2001), The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness (Palgrave, 2009), Literature against Fundamentalism (OUP, 2024) and the co-edited […]

Tiffany McDaniel’s novel, Betty: Witnessing Pain to Power

Columns / Samiksha Ransom

by Samiksha Ransom “I envy you, Betty. You’re free as a plant.” ~ Tiffany McDaniel, Betty Tiffany McDaniel’s Betty, published by Knopf in 2020, is the coming-of-age, coming-of-voice story of Betty Carpenter. Given the environment in which the author’s mother grew up, the story blends truth and fiction. Betty narrates the story of the women

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