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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
Librettist
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Poet
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Calcutta
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You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.
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All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above-- Know that you aren't alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.
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Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.
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Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.
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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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I don't think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.
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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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God save us from people who mean well.
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Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
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Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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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 want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.
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I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink
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Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.
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