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The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.
Vikas Swarup
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Vikas Swarup
Age: 54
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Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
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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 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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I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they are born. Is an existence without desire very desirable? And is the poverty of desire better than rank poverty itself?
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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 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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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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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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And I realized again that real life is different from reel life.
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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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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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The brain is not an organ we are authorized to use. We are supposed to use only our hands and legs.
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I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.
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