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In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits.

Ashwin Sanghi

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Ashwin Sanghi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 25
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Bombay
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Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a good writer is: 'to thine own self be true!'
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I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to transport myself to a happy place where I can indulge my hopes, beliefs, aspirations and fantasies. It also allows me to live and breathe a topic for eighteen months while I'm researching and writing.
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I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress.
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The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience's expectations.
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While growing up, I always had to depend on foreign authors for page-turners. I think of myself as a commercial writer, and my job is simple to entertain you.
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After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.
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Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.
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It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If I come after a bad day, I can decide that my protagonist will die on page 100 of my novel in a 350-page story.
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I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, You cant know where youre going if you dont know where youve been. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.
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O Rakshas, everything is always all right in the end. If it isn't all right, then it isn't the end
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Though it is very easy to do valuations, eyeballs and brand prominence surveys, you should never allow any of them to influence the balance sheet.
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What is divine? It is simply that which man has not been able to understand. Once you do, it loses its divinity.
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Vish, the creator and Shiv, the destroyer, are simply two faces of the very same coin.
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I want to be remembered as a storyteller more than someone who had something meaningful to say.
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I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate.
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What I would not like is to be ignored. I write from the heart. I don't write for me. I write for my readers.
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In order to become the master, a ruler must profess to be a servant of the people.
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The Divine is simply that which science has not yet explained. In effect, God = Infinity - Human Knowledge.
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I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.'
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Battles are won and lost before they are fought.
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