Word: vikram
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...Truth Is as Beautiful as Fiction Most writers are happy to achieve success in a single format, but such a career would bore gifted polymath Vikram Seth. The Indian-born author has already delighted readers with poetry, translations of Chinese verse, a book of travels through Tibet, a libretto and the monumental novel A Suitable Boy. This fall, Seth releases his latest foray into a new genre: a memoir titled Two Lives, which tells the true story of how his Indian granduncle Shanti fell in love with and married a Jewish-German woman after World War II. The book will...
...Vikram Seth had a problem. The Calcutta-born, London-based author had exploded onto the literary scene in 1986 with The Golden Gate, a novel in verse set in California. His 1993 Indian saga A Suitable Boy - at nearly 1,400 pages the longest work of fiction in English since the 18th century - sold a million copies in Britain alone. Then came some poems, an opera libretto and ? nothing. "You don't know exactly what to write about next," Seth's mother, visiting from India, told him in 1994. "Why don't you write about him?" She was referring...
...persuaded Bain & Co to transfer him to San Francisco so he could be closer to his brother, Vikram, an M.D.-Ph.D candidate at the University of California-San Francisco...
World-renowned writers Han Ong, Elif Shafak and M.G. Vassanji gather to read excerpts of their celebrated novels The Disinherited, The Saint of Incipient Insanities, and The In Between World of Vikram Lall. Ong, a Filipino-American, Shafak, from Turkey and Vassanji, from Kenya via Tanzania and Canada, all focus their recent novels on stories of exile and love, and the emotional attachments of one’s culture. No ticket necessary. 6:30 p.m. The Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass...
Eliot House resident Vikram Viswanathan ’06, who is in Computer Science 50, said he has an undergraduate TF, who is only a year younger than him. Viswanathan said that it’s nice to have a teacher who understands what it’s like to be a student in the class...