Madness Mandali

Introducing Sherpa - Madness Mandali's book coaching service.

noreply@blogger.com (MadnessMandali) — Sat, 25 May 2013 17:13:00 +0000

Hello,

For the past few days we have been harping about Sherpa on our Facebook page. The response has been amazing. A lot of people have been asking, "Sherpa, Sherpa, kya hai? Yeh Sherpa, Sherpa". So we decided that we do a post for all those shy people who never seem to email us for details.

Sherpa basically is a book coaching service. We will help you publish a book, start to finish. We, after having published KaviKala with a 0 budget realised that self publishing is awesome. We had a pool of awesome artists, literary enthusiasts, book lovers, and writers. So we put together a team of people whose services will be put to used to make your book.

Coming to how this will done, let us elucidate by showing you Mandali's involvement in each stage of production.

Stage 1 is pre-production where we at Mandali will be your book-coaches who annoy/bully/encourage/push you to keep writing. We also promise you unabashed, unbiased constructive criticism/feedback/sarcastic comments on your writing. This will ensure that your plot makes sense, and your characters are strong.

Then comes Stage 2 where we begin fine tuning the editorial aspects of the book. Here a copy-editor will come in and clean up the grammar and spelling, cut away florid and unnecessary sentences and make the copy tight and sharp. And then comes in a proof reader who will literally go through the book word by word and ensure your book is typo free and all the T's are dotted and the I's are crossed.

Finally in Stage 3, our awesome designers will come in and design the interiors (pages) and exterior (cover) of your book! And voila! You have a book that reads like it came from a publishing house much better than the kinds that publish C-Bag and a cover that is pretty friggin awesome as well! We can also get your book made into an e-book after this stage!

Sounds good, right? But expensive? Not at all.

Fixed costs:

Editing
proof reading
cover design
book design

Variable cost:

Book coaching

What do these mean?

1. Book coaching (which is necessary only if you don't have a manuscript ready)- Charges by the month.

[You will have to pay this for at least one month, so that we can suggest edits, give comments, help you understand the strong points of your story]

2. Editing and Proofreading - When you enter this stage, your manuscript will be locked. There will be no major changes after this. Only refining of statements and correction of those silly grammar mistakes than simply seem to evade the eye.

3.Cover Design - Our team shall give you a choice of amazing cover designs and then you shall be spoilt for choice.
4. Book Design - No book is complete until you have all your pages aligned, the font all right, the pages number and type set. That 's what is done here.

By the time, you come here, you shall have a book ready to be printed. This is where our work ends but since, we by this time, would have become your best friends (or worse enemies - but we hoping for the former), we will help you decide if you want to do an eBook and/or if you want to go for print on demand. We will help you negotiate a deal with them. (Your contract is not inclusive of this and you will have a separate one with the publisher).

That done, soon you shall have the book in your hands and major bookstores. How do you think you will feel then?

For further queries, contact madnessmandali@gmail.com

The Water Glass Project simplified

noreply@blogger.com (MadnessMandali) — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 09:52:00 +0000

We know all of you are really smart and all but we thought we'll make things simpler, just in case. So here is The Water Glass Project simplified.

WHAT?

So a collaborative writing challenge. Okay?

BUT who?

Well of course, YOU! But let us make it clearer?

You along with a friend or more (upto 4), write a story with more than one voice. Capiche?

How much time do I have? How much to write?

Here, Dobby do the answering...

The challenge will run from 1st January to 31st January, 2013. So get your quills and ink ready.

If you are still reading this horrendously long post, you must be interested, right? Oh yay! Let me the first to welcome you to the Minions.

Officially, you need to register. So that the Manoos has all your details and knows where to find you and your team.

Registrations open from 1st December, 2012 and will be on till midnight of 30th December.

Phew, a full month of writing is tough, I know but think of everything you get in return. A published book! We'll promote, publicize and do everything for your book, including running around in the market with drums. So yes, you can win, yes you can.

So once again, a team of 2 to 5 people write a book with more than one voice in a span of 31 days. The registrations start on 1st December, 2012 and the challenge runs in the month of January.

If at all, you are still confused, need to clarify some doubts, we are always online. Here's our FB page, and our email and our twitter. You can stalk us!

Minion on behalf on the Manoos, signing off!

The Water Glass Project

noreply@blogger.com (MadnessMandali) — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:37:00 +0000

Madness Mandali and its Mad Minions proudly present to you our newest challenge, 'The Water Glass Project'. This awesomely designed poster has everything you need to know about, but if you still need more information, the FAQ section shall answer your remaining queries. And yes, the site will be up soon to accept entries for this project.

Now go tell every baccha baccha of your neighbourhood, Mandali is back!

Kavikala | OUT NOW!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 21:12:00 +0000

Kavikala - Massive Preview!

The face of KaviKala

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:57:00 +0000

The cover for KaviKala is out, all 6 by 9 inches of it. Deleeshus no?

Oh Yeah!

How I Mate You Are Mandali

noreply@blogger.com (MadnessMandali) — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:34:00 +0000

We at Madness Mandali keep getting asked how we came together, why we came together, why we came up with the idea of a visual poetry book and will the nanga naach ever stop?

Aavar pagal phellow Hari Chakyar a.k.a. Nature Baba a.k.a. the guy who drew and wrote this kaumik decided to answer these koschins once and for all.

First Look: KaviKala (Coming This November)

noreply@blogger.com (MadnessMandali) — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:38:00 +0000

Ram Ram Mandali!

Firstly we are very very overjaaied with the love that Mandali has been receiving from you peepalz and even the media. If we could describe how much joy we have it would look something like this ossum dance routine from this video:

Pictured: Exact Reaction

As you also know, over the last couple of weeks we've been slowly but surely building up the momentum as we head closer and closer to the release of our first book of Visual Poetry titled KaviKala - (the name was suggested by our dear Maavshi, Mrs. Suranga Date)

What's that you say? You don't know we're coming out with a book this November? Seriously? You mean you didn't see it when Suresh 'Sir, I Made Lakhs' Kalmadi assured the world on Facebook and Twitter that this would be a World-Class book? Okay fine, we admit that may have not been the smartest decision on our part, but seeing how everyone started to say good things about the CWG village after a few pics 'showed up on FB' we thought it was worth a shot.

Accha chalo, did you saw when Genelia (who is also Kabhi Kabhi referred to as Aditi) said we're rare, na? Nahi?

That mince ke you are as oblivious to aavar book as an #Amit is about the South of India (See now we're even dropping them cool hashtags!)

Fikar not. The very ossum people from Afternoon Despatch & Courier (Not a courier service, as aavar middiya-parson Hari Chak(Norris)Yar would say!), have featured us in their newspaper today which you can read here

But since website links are web 1.0; we have for you an awesome Issuu version of the article complete with Topless Mermaids and a joke about that guy who burned copies of that novel which was on the syllabus of Mumbai University.

Now if that's not what you call SEO then Veena Malik and Ashmit Patel's upcoming affair on Bigg Boss 4 is totally not scripted!

Okay so it looks like we've covered every trending topic for today, so without further ado, here's the awesome article in Afternoon about our upcoming book KaviKala!

Okthnxbai!

Visual Poetry Project Final List

noreply@blogger.com (MadnessMandali) — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 16:10:00 +0000

Artists

Aminath Shareehan Ibrahim
Anjora Noronha
Atul Paranjape
Deepak Sukrutaraj
Deepthi Radhakrishnan
Devdatt Manjrekar
Dhwani Shah
Dinesh Francis
George Supreeth
Jasjyot Singh Hans
Kanchan Dhankani
Kishore Mohan
Madhuri Maram a.k.a Iruhdam
Mira Malhotra
Mrinal Roy
Neha Saini
Ojasvi Mohanty
Poonam Athalye
Prabha Mallya
Priya Sebastian
Rakesh Baidya
Ranganath Krishnamani
Rohit Keluskar
Rosh
Saishraddha Malage
Samita Chatterjee
Sandhya Ramachandran
Santosh Pai
Sharon Jacob
Shilo Shiv Suleman
Sinu Chandrasen
Sonal Goyal

Poems

"_________" by Amit Charles aka Scribbler
Braille Rainbow by Annie Zaidi
Word Ogres by Anoopa Anand
Prayer by Asma Ladha
The Parting Shot by Avinash Subramaniam
Homes by Bhaskar Pitla
The Castle by Chaitali Kokate
If Your Desk is Blue Today by Dipalle Parmar-Haworth
For The Love of Me by Eroteme
Fabrications and Altercations by Himali Singh Soin
Abandoned Trains by Janice Pariat
Playing Lego With My Son by Kadambari Sen
Duniya Meri Nazar Se by Kaustubh Panat
Blue Whale in the Rain Speaks of No Trains by Kaveri G
Spring Cleaning by Menka Shivdasani
Burying Love by Monidipa Mondal
No Kissing Allowed Medem by Mrinalani Harchandrai
Thoughts at the Top by Suranga Date
Live On by Nickolai Kinny
Immutable by Paras Sharma
Mrs Aggarwal Forty-Fied by Payal Talreja
A Song of Spring by Raamesh Raghavan
Ripples by Roshni Devi
Droplet in the Sea by Runcil Rebello
Your Calculated Triumph by Sabina Yasmin Rahman
It Will Pass by Samir Alam
Mermaid by Sharanya Manivannan
Interlude by Siddharth Bhatt
Green Song by Sudipta Biswas
Spurts of Red by Sushrut Munje
Cantos for Breakfast by Trisha Bora
Entwine by Upasana Mukherjee
The Circus by Vaishnavi Prasad

Visual Poetry Project Long List

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:42:00 +0000

These are the artists and poets who have been chosen for the next round of selection.

Our art and poetry editors will now go through these works and choose the final 31 artists and 31 poets.   If you make the final cut, you will be featured in our book. The decision of our editors regarding selection will be final.

NOTE* If you had received an email from us stating that you have been longlisted and your name is somehow not here on the longlist please contact us.

Since we have a lot of entries to go through, this is going to take some time. We will be publish an update regarding the selection process by 10th September, 2010  Stay tuned!

    POETS

   Aayushi Mehta
Amit Charles aka Scribbler
Anita Satyajit
Annie Zaidi
Anoopa Anand
Arkasha Bhairavi
Asma Ladha
Avinash Subramaniam
Azmat Amanullah
Bhaskar Pitla
Brandt D’Mello
Chaitali Kokate
Christine Johny
Diana Romany
Dipalle Parmar
Divya Manjunath
Eroteme
Harneet Singh
Harshad Shinde
Harsimran Kapoor
Himali Singh Soin
Janice Pariat
Kadambari Sen
Kalpana RJ
Kasturi Jadhav
Kaustubh Painat
Kaveri Gopalakrishnan
Kishore Mohan/ Rosh
Konika Sharma
Maithili Desai
Menka Shivdasani
Monidipa Mondal
Mrinalini Harchandrai
Mukta Patil
Nickolai Kinny
Nikhil Mane
Paras Sharma
Payal Talreja
Prabha Mallya
Preeti Singh
Priya Shah
Priyal Dedhia
Raamesh Raghavan
Ramya Thomas
Renuka Rane
Riya Sharma
Roshni Devi
Runcil Rebello
Rutu Ladage
Sabina Yasmin Rahman
Sagar Patil
Samir Alam
Sandhya Ramachandran
Shankari Murali
Sharanya Manivannan
Shigufta Uzma
Siddarth Bhatt
Sudipta Biswas
Suneetha B
Suranga Date
Sushrut Munje
Tanvi Mallya
Trisha Bora
Upasana Mukherjee
Vaishnavi Prasad
Vallari Shah
Violet Pereira
Viraj Muthye

ARTISTS
Ahmed Afazil 
Aminath Shareehan Ibrahim
      Anjora Noronha
      Deepak Sukrutaraj 
Deepthi Radhakrishnan
Devdatt Manjrekar
Dhwani Shah
Dinesh Francis 
George Supreeth
Irudham Maram
Jai Ranjit 
Jasjyot Singh Hans 
Kanchan Dhankani
Kaveri Gopalakrishnan 
Kishore Mohan 
Lavanya Karthik
Matthew Jacob
Mira Malhotra 
Mrinal Roy 
Neha Saini
Ojasvi Mohanty 
Poonam Athalye
Prabha Mallya 
Priya Sebastian
Proxy Joy 
Radha Pandey
      Rakesh Baidya
Ranganath Krishnamani 
Rohit Keluskar
Rosh 
Saishraddha Malage 
Samita Chatterjee 
Sandhya Ramachandran
Santosh Pai 
Sharon Jacob 
Shesh Kiran 
Shilo Shiv Suleman 
Sinu Chandrasen 
Suvajeet Duttagupta 
Sonal Goyal

Nutty No-Rhymes by Suranga Date

noreply@blogger.com (MadnessMandali) — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:05:00 +0000

Here's a little poem sent to us by Suranga Date on the Madness Mandali Visual Poetry Project Poster designed by our very own Mira Malhotra.

Sensational
in orange,
Tickled pink,
Ideas just bubble forth,
like milk
boiling on simmer.....

Add some
squishy raisins,
stiff upper lip
cashews,
alliterative almonds,
preening pistachios,
supercilious kanjoos
saffron strands,
sit in a
Padmaasan,
enjoying
the Mad book,
like a
perfect payasam....
but Aiyyo !
Padmavati,
where the hell are my glasses ?

Sunday Guardian

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:50:00 +0000

Thanks to Annie Johnny for the lovely article :)

The Madness Mandali Visual Poetry Project

noreply@blogger.com (MadnessMandali) — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:26:00 +0000