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And I realized again that real life is different from reel life.
Vikas Swarup
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Vikas Swarup
Age: 54
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My books may highlight corruption, brutality and venality, but they also show that if these things come to light, there is rectification. The voiceless do have a voice democratic mechanisms and accountability do exist.
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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
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...a rainy day ceases to have meaning for a person who has lived in the open under a monsoon cloud most of his life.
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The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
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I did not go to any creative writing workshop I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.
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I get invited to many more literary festivals than I used to because I'm associated with 'Slumdog Millionaire,' the brand. Many more doors have opened up for me as a result of the global success of the film, although I believe that I'm the same person that existed before it.
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Global terror does not respect national boundaries.
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I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the Hindustan Times.
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Love doesn't happen in an instant. It creeps up on you and then it turns your life upside-down. It colours your waking moments and fills your dreams. You begin to walk on air and see life in brilliant new shades. But it also brings with it a sweet agony, a delicious torture.
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People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar they want to connect more deeply.
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Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
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The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.
Vikas Swarup
My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.
Vikas Swarup
The one conclusion I have reached is that whiskey is a great leveler. You might be a hotshot advertising executive or a lowly foundry worker, but if you cannot hold your drink, you are just a drunkard.
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