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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.

Akhil Sharma

It is hard to create a first-person narrator that can be a child and yet is able to take in enough information for the narrative to be legible to the reader.
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Able Child Children Create Enough First Information Legible Narrator
There are also so many emotional aspects to money – feelings of inadequacy, feelings of security. I am not sure if there needs to be more about money in fiction, but the absence of this aspect can make a story feel somehow frictionless and unreal.
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Aspect Emotional Feeling Fiction How Inadequacy Money Security Unreal
The babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to become little babies.
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Baby Become Little Old Soul Shrink
Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind.
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Lose Mind Novel Seven Started Writing Year
For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.
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Absolute True
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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Better Done Good Person Sometimes Success Wonder Work
Intern will resonate not only with doctors, but with anyone who has struggled with the grand question ‘What should I do with my life?’ In a voice of profound honesty and intelligence,
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Doctor Grand Honesty Intelligence Intern Life Profound Question Resonate Struggled Voice
Also, I have to assume that readers are sophisticated enough to know that not every person in a community is the same, and so there are many people who would not force an abortion just because a fetus is female.
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Assume Community Female Many Person Reader Same Sophisticated
The monsoon is such a dominant part of Indian life that it is hard to overstate its importance.
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Country Different Dominant Importance Indian Life Monsoon Rain Such
I need to tell the things that are important but which don’t make sense in terms of the narrative, things that would destroy symmetry or narrative pace. This is my personal belief about what it means to write nonfiction.
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Important Mean Narrative Need Sense Thing Writing
Even within my stories, people hold opposing views.
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Hold Oppose People Story View
I tend to think that we are all pretty much alike. We all feel despair. We all have problems with relationships.
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Alike Much People Pretty Thinking Unique
I can’t have composite characters. I can’t attribute dialogue to someone based simply on my memory and not based on notes taken at the time that the words were spoken.
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Attribute Based Character Composite Dialogue Memories Note Simply Spoken Taken Word
One’s life completely changes based on the rain. After the monsoon, because the dust settles, one can see further and so it feels like one’s eyesight has improved or that one is living in a different country where there is more light.
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Change Completely Country Difficult Dust Feel Light Monsoon More Rain Settle
I can guide them to books that will serve as role models. Largely, though, one learns to write almost like developing muscle memory, and this requires years of effort.
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Book Develop Effect Guide Large Memory Model Muscle Require Role
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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Away Cry Everything Forget Loose Lost Memory Slide Tear

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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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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