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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm certainly not surprised by the passion of the youth for our myths. Mythology is almost a part of an Indian's DNA.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm one of those lucky guys making a living out of something I really enjoy doing. That's a blessing. But you never know. What if my subsequent book series flops? I don't come from a wealthy background, so I'd be left with no choice. I'd have to go back into banking!
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young, I was an academically oriented guy like most academically oriented guys. I graduated in science, did an MBA. My dreams as a young boy were I wanted to be an industrialist, or I wanted to be a scientist.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never really wanted to be a writer. I know it sounds strange, but I honestly believe that I didn't pick the story; the story has picked me. I've written absolutely no fiction before 'The Immortals of Meluha.' Not even a short story in school - absolutely nothing.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
With due apologies to Shakespeare, some people are born writers, some people achieve it after a lot of hard work, some people have a writing career thrust upon them. I am in that last group.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a voracious reader, so it's difficult for me to give a list of my favourite authors of all time.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the India I was growing up in, history wasn't really a wise career option. People would joke and say, 'History's okay, but what's your actual job?' I didn't come from a privileged background and couldn't afford to be irresponsible, so I did the pragmatic thing and did a MBA.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
No disrespect to any other god, but Shiva's an outsider god. He breaks the rules. He's a brilliant musician, a brilliant dancer; he treats his wife as an equal, and she opposes him many times, but he obsessively loves her.
- India
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- Nov 07, 2020
The youth in India tend to be rebellious, as with everywhere else, and that makes Shiva exciting. He has the rebellious qualities that the youths like.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young, I never thought I was going to be a writer! I was academically orientated and active at sports, but I didn't have one creative bone in my body.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm writing, I am lost in my book. Except family and close friends, I don't care about what critics, publishers or readers might think.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mythology and history are my passion. I grew up in a religious family and learnt about our scriptures and philosophies. It's the language I'm comfortable with.
- Civilisation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with it.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father's family hails from Banaras. My grandfather taught mathematics at Banaras Hindu University. Banaras is also dedicated to Lord Shiva, home to one of the great jyotirlings, the Kashi Vishwanath temple.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
While in some countries there's a feeling that literature must stay away from religion, this is not so in India - in the Indian way, literature is just another means to find a more spiritual life, to find our way to God.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since I don't come from a privileged background, I couldn't afford to be irresponsible with career decisions. I wrote two books alongside my job and resigned only when I realised I can make a living.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a very happy banker, but I feel happier as an author.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the early '90s, I was disillusioned after the blasts and riots in Mumbai. I was in college and started thinking that religion was the root cause of all these evils. While my father told me not to blame religion because of a few bad people, I wasn't convinced. The faith was restored after I started writing my first book.
- Forward
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider myself lucky that Sonu Nigam, Bikram Ghosh and Taufiq Quereshi came forward to create an original soundtrack to promote my book, something that hasn't been tried here before!
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing MBA, engineering or medicine.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
A writer can't afford to just focus on writing and leave marketing aside in today's competitive market.
- Good Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
A bad book and good marketing won't work, the same way a good book and bad marketing will also not work. There is no choice in the matter that if you need to write a good book, you also need to have good marketing for it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anuj Bahari has always been a really good literary agent for me. What a good agent does is that he manages many of your business aspects so you can keep your time free for writing.
- Convey
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have to write a fictional adventure to convey a philosophy of evil, the best person is the destroyer of evil himself, Lord Shiva.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see everything like a movie. I laugh and cry, I smell, touch, see and describe my own experience. I don't care if this sounds strange; I am not the creator - I am only the channel. The story is given to me.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I turned atheist in the '90s when India went through troubled times - communal riots, bomb blasts... Mumbai, where I live, was badly affected. I blamed religion; also, extremists on both sides - right and left.
- Liberalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
In India, it is not a contradiction for religion and liberalism to co-exist.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fortunately, I grew up in a traditional family where questioning was encouraged, particularly by my pandit grandfather. We are all voracious readers, seeking knowledge. I learn a lot from discussions with my wife, siblings and parents.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's a fallacy to say that a good book sells itself. It doesn't happen. I'm a voracious reader and I can give you a long list of books which should have been best sellers but they aren't. How can you buy a book if you haven't heard of it?
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
The good news is that a vast majority of Indians from different religions see no contradiction between religiosity and liberalism, keep India stable. We religious liberals don't talk loudly enough.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a wealth of readership for regional language literature in India that is not given importance. We must give respect to our own languages.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though many Indians can read or speak English, for most, it is not their first language. At the office, we speak in English, but we consume our culture in our own language.
- Elite
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most educated Indians are bilingual. Amongst the urban elite though, there is a disdain for regional languages. That's unfortunate.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I'm any competition to the already-existing canon of writers in Kannada. How can I ever even think of comparing myself?
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
India is a musical country, so it would appear obvious to use our collective passion for music to promote a book.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Songs of different moods are like keys, which help me enter the world of my book's characters.
- Karma
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a writer, it's important to stay true to your story without giving a hoot about publishers, critics and readers. You should do your karma as an author the way you want to, and rest is up to God.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
He has turned my life around by 180 degrees, I still don't understand why Shiva has blessed me so much. I believe he'll bless the worst of us first because we need it the most.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing about our gods in English is unnatural, but I believe language is just a carrier - a means to an end.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020