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To write, I think one must sit in one place and be bored. Boredom is a very good state for writers to be. Things cook away in your head when you're bored, and suddenly one day, you have a book or a germ of a book.

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Meat-fetishiser that I was, I used to find willed vegetarianism inexplicable. It was one thing to be a vegetarian because of religious and caste reasons - something I was familiar with because of my Indian upbringing - but to choose to be a vegetarian when you could eat meat for every meal every day? That seemed madness to me.

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The freedom fighters in India's long struggle for independence from British rule, or members of the African National Congress, were once classed as terrorists. History, as they say, is written by victors, but history also has many cunning corridors - how much time must elapse before all those tricky side-passages are revealed?

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To be an Indian writer is to write, necessarily and inevitably, about politics, so it was a given that the story of the Ghoshes, the family at the centre of 'The Lives of Others,' should have a political soul.

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The Naxalite revolution - an ultra-left Maoist movement - in Bengal, and elsewhere in India, in the late 1960s provides one strand of 'The Lives of Others.'

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Work defines our lives and our place in the world.

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I don't read my books, so I don't allow myself the dangerous luxury of toying with the idea of doing things differently.

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I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer.

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One writes what one can, or has to, write.

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Remember that what seems zeitgeisty today is the cause of tomorrow's bafflement or, worse, ridicule.

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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