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There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.

Vikram Seth

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Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
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Calcutta
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In general, questions are fine you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.
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Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.
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I recall drinking sherry in California and dreaming of England, where I ate dalmoth and dreamed of Delhi. What is the purpose, I wonder, of all this restlessness? I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of billion light-years beyond?
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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings they pick and choose me.
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I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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