As a teacher, I can help my students see what is working and not working. I can show them certain solutions.
AKHIL SHARMAThe monsoon is such a dominant part of Indian life that it is hard to overstate its importance.
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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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For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.
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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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The babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to become little babies.
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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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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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The little babies are missing their families from their past lives.
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My parents are deeply pious Hindus.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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