Tag: Indian Literature

• My Interview with Sohrab Fracis at LitKicks

        “Imagine you have a friend name Rob,” says our instructor at the University of North Florida Writer’s Conference. “If you want to ask your friend a question, you might begin by saying, ‘So, Rob…’ and that is how to pronounce my first name.” Sohrab Homi Fracis (“Fray-sis”) is the first Asian writer to win…

  Bill Ectric

  September 9, 2011

  India, Indian Literature, Iowa Short Fiction Award, Literary Kicks, Mark Twain Overlook, publishing, short stories, Sohrab Fracis, Sohrab Homi Fracis, The Campion School, Ticket To Minto, UNF, UNF Writer’s Conference, writers, Zoroastrian

• Here Comes the Sun: Ticket To Minto: Stories of India and America, plus an update on the Ali Mirdrekvandi Investigation

  A few months ago I pondered the origins of a little-known book called No Heaven For Gunga Din by Ali Mirdrekvandi, who may or may not have really lived. I recently got some additional insight into that subject from Sohrab Homi Fracis, who I met Wednesday night at the monthly poetry reading at Chamblin’s Uptown  here in…

  Bill Ectric

  April 17, 2011

  India, Indian Literature, Sohrab Homi Fracis, Ticket To Minto, Zoroastrian