<p><strong>37. Paul Waters talks to and hears about the winner and runners-up of the 2025 India Global Forum Archer Amish Award for Storytellers - including Jeffrey Archer, Amish Tripathi, Shalini Mullick, Nitya Neelakantan, Yogesh Pandey, &amp; Amit Roy - the editor of the Eastern Eye newspaper. </strong></p><p>Dr Shalini Mullick is the author of <em>The Way Home</em>. Nitya Neelakantan is the author of <em>Navapashanam - The Quest for the Nine Magical Poisons</em>. And Yogesh Pandey is the author of <em>The Kill Switch</em>.</p><p>The winner tells us about his/her writing process - the miracle of how it is fitted in to the rest of a very busy life.</p><p>Jeffrey Archer talks about what makes a page turner &amp; his new book, the latest &amp; likely final instalment in his William Warwick series, <em>End Game</em>, set at the London Olympics.<em> </em>He also gives an insight - courtesy of Commander Robert Broadhurst who was the Met Police Gold Commander for the 2012 Olympics - into what could have gone catastrophically wrong at the real Olympics - &amp; why Sebastian Coe was never told. Jeffrey also explains why <em>Stoner</em> by John Williams is the book that has been gripping him recently. He also has another story up his sleeve which he says is better than Kane and Abel.</p><p>Amish Tripathi talks about his new book, <em>The Chola Tigers</em>, about a historical assassination squad, &amp; the challenges of researching a setting so long ago. He&#39;s been reading something very up to date though - two books by Ray Kurzweil, <em>The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology</em>, &amp;, <em>The Singularity is Nearer: When We Merge with AI</em>. </p><p>They both also explain why they&#39;ve chosen who they&#39;ve chosen as the winner of the inaugural IGF Archer Amish Award for Storytellers - which is incidentally sponsored by the House of Abhinandan Lodha. The IGF itself has Manoj Ladwa as Founder &amp; Chairman.</p><p>Plus, Amit Roy of the Eastern Eye gives his insight into the divergence of south Asian and British south Asian culture &amp; writing - &amp; why Indian writers &amp; filmmakers come to London, &#39;the capital of Greater India&#39;, for validation. AA Dhand &amp; Satyajit Ray get a mention.</p><p><strong>We&#39;d Like A Word is a podcast &amp; radio show from authors Paul Waters &amp; Stevyn Colgan.</strong> (And sometimes Jonathan Kennedy.) We talk with writers, readers, editors, agents, celebrities, talkers, poets, publishers, booksellers, &amp; audiobook creators about books - fiction &amp; non-fiction. We go out on various radio &amp; podcast platforms. Our website is http://www.wedlikeaword.com for information on Paul, Steve &amp; our guests. We&#39;re on Twitter @wedlikeaword &amp; Facebook @wedlikeaword &amp; our email is [email protected] Yes, we&#39;re embarrassed by the missing apostrophes. We like to hear from you - questions, thoughts, ideas, guest or book suggestions. Perhaps you&#39;d like to come on We&#39;d Like A Word to chat, review or read out passages from books.</p><p>Paul is the author of a new Irish-Indian cosy crime series set in contemporary Delhi. The first in the series is <strong>Murder in Moonlit Square</strong>, which published by No Exit Press / Bedford Square Publishers &amp; Penguin India in October 2025. Paul previously wrote the 1950s Irish border thriller <strong>Blackwatertown</strong>.</p><p>We can also recommend <strong>Cockerings</strong>, the comic classic by Stevyn Colgan, and his hugely popular YouTube channel <strong>@Colganology</strong></p>