Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth CBEis an Indian novelist and poet. He has written several novels and poetry books. He has received several awards including Padma Shri, Sahitya Akademi Award, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, WH Smith Literary Award and Crossword Book Award. Seth's collections of poetry such as Mappings and Beastly Tales are notable contributions to the Indian English language poetry canon...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth20 June 1952
CountryIndia
ideas existence good-ideas
You can talk good ideas out of existence.
needs propensity mesmerized
Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
reading stuff interest
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.
race rivers water
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.
thinking world goodness
I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
book want obscure
I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.
writing thinking trivia
It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
asking-questions shy answering-questions
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.
eye artist chinese
In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.
writing years cases
I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
mother inspiration suggestions
You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.
thinking giving people
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.
book reading rooms
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.
boys posters burden
There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.