Friday 30 April 2021

Artists for India: An author-signed book in exchange for a donation of £100 or more

Sonia Faleiro and a number of other writers have created Artists for India.

 Sonia's post explains:


The participating writers, as of this time, are Salman Rushdie, Kamila Shamsie, Ali Smith, Jodi Picoult, Fatima Bhutto, Curtis Sittenfeld, Nikita Lalwani, Nikesh Shukla, Alice Albinia, Max Porter, Alpa Shah, McKenzie Funk, Gayle Forman, Deepa Anappara, Shrabani Basu, Sanam Maher, Diksha Basu, Tania James, Carolyn Mackler, Sonia Faleiro, William Dalrymple, Eimear McBride, Kiran Desai, Saba Imtiaz, Liza Mundy, VV Ganeshananthan, Megha Majumdar, Aruni Kashyap, Susan Abulhawa, Avni Doshi, Mira Kamdar, Tahmima Anam, Prayaag Akbar, Alison Dunlop, Ravi Agrawal, Madhuri Vijay, Alexander Maksik, Molly Crabapple, Pragya Agarwal, Angela Saini, Clover Stroud, Jessica Jarlvi.

In exchange for a donation of £100 or more to their fundraiser for Mission Oxygen, one of these writers will send you a signed copy of one of their books. Please see this page for more.

If you'd like to join in, contact Sonia

Thursday 29 April 2021

Legal advice from Murali: an hour for a ₹25,000 donation

 

Murali is a dual-qualified lawyer (English solicitor and Indian advocate) with over two decades of experience as a corporate commercial lawyer. He was previously a senior equity partner at Ashurst in London and subsequently a senior partner at Khaitan & Co. He joined Cipla in 2013 as its first Global General Counsel and subsequently was Executive Director and Global General Counsel at Glenmark. He is currently the principal lawyer at amicus where he provides legal and policy advice.

Contact Murali via the email address on the amicus website to book your hour with him.

Tuesday 27 April 2021

Public offers on Twitter

On Twitter, a number of people, lead by Anshumani Ruddra, have made similar offers. Diwakar painstakingly compiled them, for which we are grateful. Here are the tweets.

Monday 26 April 2021

Writing lessons from Prem Panicker

Prem says

From May 1, for every verified donation of 25k, I will donate an hour of my time to solve writing problems, respond to questions, or just chat on writing-related issues. Between 10-12 and again between 3-5.

Prem is @prempanicker on Twitter. If you're on Twitter, see his post here and DM him, or email him at prem.panicker at gmail