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Battles are won and lost before they are fought.

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Ashwin Sanghi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 25
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Bombay
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I am a part of the old school where I feel that purity of the language should be retained. But English is a constantly evolving language where new words are being added to the dictionary, so I don't see any harm in experimenting with the language. Only poor editing standards need to be improved.
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There has to be a protagonist who has to overcome challenges, and there will be a race to finish.
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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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Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.
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If there is one city apart from Mumbai where I would love to settle down, it has to be Chennai.
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Vish, the creator and Shiv, the destroyer, are simply two faces of the very same coin.
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Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.
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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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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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Winning an award is a great feeling but winning the Vodafone Crossword Popular Choice Award is particularly exhilarating because it is based upon public voting. I find it a strange quirk of fate that Chanakya's Chant, a political tale, should end up winning an election!
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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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Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.
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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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I want to be remembered as a storyteller more than someone who had something meaningful to say.
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Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.
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What I have found is that, in a family business structure, sometimes what is needed is a sense of discipline rather than creativity. You have to take everyones ideas and make it work. When you are dealing with money, there is a limitation on how creative you can be.
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I would imagine that anyone picking up a book written by me would expect a fast-paced story that requires minimal effort to turn the pages. The reader would also be looking for some out-of-the-ordinary revelations along the way. At the end of the day, I'm a writer who simply loves revealing stuff that is out-of-the-ordinary.
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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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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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