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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.
Vikas Swarup
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Vikas Swarup
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The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.
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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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