Find poems, short stories and novels on the platform, which has 3 lakh writers and more than 2.5 crore readers
Ranjeet Pratap Singh (32), co-founder and CEO of Pratilipi, a homegrown storytelling platform, and Sumit Menaria, one of its star authors — whose novel is scheduled to be published in the first week of March — share few similarities. While Singh is an engineer who grew up in Fattepur, a small village in Uttar Pradesh, Menaria is a chartered accountant who hails from Udaipur in Rajasthan. What bonds the two, however, is a love of books and Pratilipi.
The idea for the storytelling platform had gestated for many years, says Singh. While studying engineering in Bhubaneshwar, he had found that not only was the availability of Hindi content (offline) limited, but it was also practically non-existent online. “I would crib that it should be my choice to read something in English; it should not be because of lack of access,” he says, recalling that the pursuit of a…