For me, a lot of the humor comes not from innocence but from characters trying to figure out how to get what they need. I don’t try to be funny, but am relieved when an opportunity comes up for humor.
AKHIL SHARMAIt is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.
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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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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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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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As a teacher, I can help my students see what is working and not working. I can show them certain solutions.
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My parents are deeply pious Hindus.
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Even within my stories, people hold opposing views.
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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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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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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 little babies are missing their families from their past lives.
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To me exposition always contains tenderness.
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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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Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind.
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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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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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