I don’t think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.
VIKRAM SETHI don’t think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.
VIKRAM SETHI just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
VIKRAM SETHQuietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.
VIKRAM SETHDear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
VIKRAM SETHI don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
VIKRAM SETHGood books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
VIKRAM SETHFiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people’s lives, the lives of people you don’t know, and you want to know what’s going to happen to them.
VIKRAM SETHAnd the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.
VIKRAM SETHAll you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above– Know that you aren’t alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.
VIKRAM SETHYou can talk good ideas out of existence.
VIKRAM SETHYou will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
VIKRAM SETHYou get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
VIKRAM SETHYou have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally – your ears will know.
VIKRAM SETHMan without life companion is either god or beast.
VIKRAM SETHAnd an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
VIKRAM SETHI am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
VIKRAM SETH