Indian Express
🔗 http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/Full-pants-an-angsty-adolescent-dream/2016/06/02/article3461582.ece 
                            
Suman Kumar–a former IT employee–is a stay at home dad, movie writer, and a stand-up comic. He was born in Madras, went to school in Chittoor before he worked in a string of really boring jobs.
He lives in Bangalore now with his gorgeous doctor wife and their beautiful, six year old daughter (the girls threatened to throw him out of the house if he didn’t include them in his bio.)
 
                            <p>Sayetta is an archangel who has been sent into the physical world to seek out eight archangels who have been reborn into the world. She knows that she cannot do it in the form of an angel so she takes on a human form to move through among us in the physical world. Gabe a mortal has the soul of a warrior angel. He is reborn in physical form to prepare for her coming. He is born with abilities that he is unaware he has.</p><p>All of his life Gabe had been having dreams of a ruined church. He never knew the name of the church, but the dream was always the same. In the dream, he was standing facing the ruins of the church. But he didn’t look like a human. Instead, he was an angel with pure white wings and a golden countenance. Another much larger angel appeared to him. The angel pointed towards what was left of the door and said “Enter, your journey has just begun and your guide awaits you.</p><p>Sayetta finds out from Archangel Michael that Lucifer has sent an old demon to find and stop Auriel from removing the demons he has imprisoned in the earth.</p><p>They receive a little help from the Archangels Azuriel and Gabriel as they journey to locate Auriel. It’s a race to find Auriel before the demon does. In the end, it’s a battle between two powerful beings, one good and one evil.</p>
https://notionpress.com/academy/suman-kumar-author-of-ranga-half-pants-on-how-he-cracked-his-first-novel/
<p><strong>"Full Pants, an angsty, adolescent dream</strong>"</p> <p>- http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/Full-pants-an-angsty-adolescent-dream/2016/06/02/article3461582.ece</p> <p>"<strong style="border:0px;font-family:'Merriweather Sans', sans-serif;font-size:20.8px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(94,94,94);">Perfectly paced and smooth flowing</strong><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:'Merriweather Sans', sans-serif;font-size:20.8px;">, Ranga Half pants is a story that will pull you in with its 80s nostalgia and the childlike thoughts of the main characters. He’s a silly selfish boy who doesn’t really mean any harm but somehow manages to screw up all the time. A delight to read. I’ll definitely be picking up Suman Kumar’s next book the second it comes out. I gave it </span><strong style="border:0px;font-family:'Merriweather Sans', sans-serif;font-size:20.8px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(94,94,94);">4.5 stars</strong><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:'Merriweather Sans', sans-serif;font-size:20.8px;">.</span>"</p> <p>- https://booksandstrips.wordpress.com/2016/07/13/coming-of-age-in-in-boy-shorts/</p> <p>"<span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Lato;font-size:18px;text-align:justify;">Suman has put in words the nascent teenage innocence and vulnerability very well. The hesitance that somehow sprouts up when you have to go talk to a girl (it used to be a big thing in school), how for anything big or small you cajoled our mother to persuade your father, how in an attempt to enter manhood early you tried shaving your facial and body hair, and how proud one feels when one’s local hero accepts him in his circle.</span>"</p> <p>- http://indiannerve.com/ranga-half-pants-by-suman-kumar-book-review-23307/</p> <p> </p>
 
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                    