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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
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Calcutta
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Indian
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Plenty
Burden
English
Writers
None
Poster
Boys
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Carrying

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And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.
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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.
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Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.
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Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
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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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I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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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 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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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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You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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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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Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings they pick and choose me.
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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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 sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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