I tend to think that we are all pretty much alike. We all feel despair. We all have problems with relationships.
AKHIL SHARMAExposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.
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Certainly the details of our life are unique. Spending time thinking of how I am different from someone else, however, does not tend to be very productive.
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When someone gets a success, and we, too, have done good work and sometimes even better work than the person who has just triumphed, we wonder: Why did success pass me by?
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If anybody reads an Indian newspaper, all these things are obvious, and so I am not breaking news. All I am doing is representing my community as it actually is.
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It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.
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The little babies are missing their families from their past lives.
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Ernest Hemingway has been the most important influence on me as a writer. But at a certain point as a writer,
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Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind.
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The monsoon is such a dominant part of Indian life that it is hard to overstate its importance.
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Sandeep Jauhar gives us an insider’s look at the medical profession and also a dramatic account of the psychological challenges of early adulthood.
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We all become afraid. We all look at others and think these other people are more fortunate than us.
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As a human being living one’s life, one is more open to relief when there is rain or the expectation of rain. That readiness for hope gets manifested in my stories and that of many other Indian writers.
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The tears loosen their memories so they can slide away. They cry at the life they have lost, and then they cry at everything they’ll forget.
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My parents are deeply pious Hindus.
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My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish.
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I realized that he was writing about good people doing good things. This did not match my experience of life and so I found my sentences stretching and becoming less plain.
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