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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.

Akhil Sharma

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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Accomplish Approach Aware Birthday Come Constant Gone Little Mange
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
To me exposition always contains tenderness.
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Assuming Contain Emotional Exposition Tenderness Way
The little babies are missing their families from their past lives.
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Baby Family Life Memories Missing Past
We all become afraid. We all look at others and think these other people are more fortunate than us.
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Afraid Become Fortunate Other People Think
Money is part of how we move through the world, what stores and restaurants we go into, whether we take a train to the airport or a taxi. Describing characters living in the real world requires describing them engaging with money.
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Character Info Money Moving Part Real Restaurant World
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 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
Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind.
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Lose Mind Novel Seven Started Writing Year
Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.
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Book Exposition Expression Feel Reader Suggest Tender Trust
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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Account Challenge Dramatic Look Medical Person Profession Psychological
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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Being Expectation Human Life Living More Open Rain relief
For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.
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Absolute True
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
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.
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Character Come Figure Humor Innocence Opportunity Trying
Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn’t. The fact that something is true in the real world should not lend authority to it in fiction.
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Authority Book Fact Fiction Novel Real Something True World Writing

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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