Aditya Sudarshan Biography and latest books by Aditya Sudarshan

Aditya Sudarshan has penned two novels - A Nice Quiet Holiday and Show Me A Hero. He has also written two plays, several short stories some of which have appeared in Penguin India\'s First Proof anthology, the Scientific Indian\'s Science Fiction anthology, Kindle Magazine and Reading Hour Magazine. He also writes literary criticism for The Hindu Literary Review, Biblio, Outlook and Tehelka.

Apart from this he is also a regular scriptwriter for NDTV\'s political comedy show, The Great Indian Tamasha. In February this year he shifted from Delhi to Mumbai to do more theatre and script writing work.

Aditya did his schooling from Sardar Patel Vidyalaya in Delhi and graduated in 2007 from the National Law School of India University (NLSIU) in Bangalore and has worked with a criminal lawyer in Delhi district courts with a senior lawyer for about nine months.
Aditya loves Ralph Waldo Emerson\'s Essays and thinks that these writings have had a huge impact on him.

Show Me A Hero (2011)
Vaibhav , the narrator is young and lives alone in Delhi.He lives a monotonous life until he happens to bump into his college mate Prashant.Prashant is a confident youngster coming from a well-to-do family. He holds to his ideas very strongly and brings them in to action. He decides to make a movie on a controversial cricketer. He holds a certain opinion about the cricketer and tries to bring it out through the movie. In this process he involves Vaibhav and others. However once they start shooting the movie they land into one trouble after another. A mysterious death brings everything to a halt.

A Nice Quiet Holiday (2009)
Anant, a young law clerk is invited to Bhairavgarh by his employer, the maverick New Delhi criminal court judge Justice Harish Shinde. They look forward to a peaceful stay at the home of Shikhar Pant, the Judge’s friend, and some time away from busy professional and city life. But soon after they arrive, the little hill town is transformed into a hotbed of hostility. The cause is a controversial report on AIDS authored by Mittals, fellow guests at the house of Shikhar Pant. Even the members of the house are divided on this issue and some heated arguments ensue. But this controversy is almost overshadowed by the murder of Pant’s cousin – a famous writer and supporter of the Mittals. The police, of course, jump to conclusions and chase the wrong leads. It’s up to the Judge to track down the murderer and crack the case. Anant finds himself legal counsel for the Mittals and an assistant sleuth to the Judge.

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