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What is said by the person holding a megaphone inciting a crowd, or what is said by someone who incites a rumour? And what is the difference between that person and me, sitting in my room imagining something, telling a story?

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It's so easy for folks to normalize their opinions, to engage in a groupthink that is damaging.

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I like listening to Garrison Keillor's 'The Writer's Almanac' with my daughter.

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Long ago, when I was in higher secondary school in Delhi, I read an essay by George Orwell in which he said there was a voice in his head that put into words everything he was seeing. I realised I did that, too, or maybe I started doing it in imitation.

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I have always kept notes and have kept letters from my friends and mother, which is rather depressing, as it takes you to the past.

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Novels describe what it means to be alive at a given moment.

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To my mind, a journalist needs to espouse objectivity and distance, while a writer practises an art that is more free.

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One of my earliest lessons in guilt was imparted in childhood through the story of the death of Mahatma Gandhi's father.

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In the early 1990s, my relatives in Patna, even those who had no interest in reading or writing, wanted Parker fountain pens.

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The writer will write in his or her words, but the readers, even when they are not reading you, will take it elsewhere entirely.

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Writer

Born: March 17th, 1963

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