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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.

Akhil Sharma

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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Abortion Breaking Community News Newspaper Obvious People Read
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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Experience Good Less People Plain Realized Sentence Stretch Thing
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
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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Doing Good Important Influence People Realize Thing Writer Writing
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
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
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
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
It’s easy when you grow up in fear to act out of fear. I don’t want to embrace that fear; I prefer to be kind.
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Act Be Kind Fear Grow Up Out Want
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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Book Help Memories Student Teacher Working
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
Even within my stories, people hold opposing views.
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Hold Oppose People Story View
For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.
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Absolute True
People often need to describe things quickly and so they use a shorthand. The problem is that after they use a label, they begin to think only in terms of the label instead of the totality of the experience a novel provides.
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Describe Need Often People Quick Shorthand Thinking Use
The little babies are missing their families from their past lives.
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Baby Family Life Memories Missing Past
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

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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