![]() ![]() During research, I gathered as many resources as possible: secondary sources in libraries and primary sources in archives. I never had a formal process, but I did learn by trial and error as I went along. ![]() Below, the author lends us more insight into the creation of the book that took him five years of research to compose.Ĭould you give us some insight into your creative process - both in terms of writing and the research involved? It’s non-fiction – all the events really happened – but I couldn’t have written it better if I had come up with the plot myself,” tells us Andrew Otis about the journey that led him to write Hicky's Bengal Gazette, a nuanced and insightful account of India’s first newspaper. As I dug deeper into the story of Hicky’s Gazette I noticed it had the hallmarks of being a truly great story: moving dialog, multidimensional characters, a conflict over freedom of speech that had the potential to dramatically shape India as we know it. I was drawn to Hicky’s Gazette because it was the first newspaper in Asia and one of the most consequential too. “I was led to Hicky’s Gazette as a college student in 2011 when I was writing a term paper on the history of 18th century newspapers in South Africa and India. ![]()
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