1. Vikram Seth - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Vikram Seth was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata); his family lived in a number of cities including the Bata Shoe Company town of Batanagar, near Calcutta, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikram_Seth

Vikram Seth From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Vikram Seth Vikram Seth's photo on the cover of the U.S. edition of Two Lives Born 20 June Calcutta (now Kolkata ), West Bengal, India Occupation Poet novelist , travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer and memoirist Nationality Indian Genres novels, poetry, libretto, travel writing, children's literature, biography/memoir Vikram Seth Hindi , pronounced /vɪkrəm seːʈʰ/ ), born June 20 is an Indian poet novelist , travel writer, librettist , children's writer, biographer and memoirist. An unusually forthcoming writer whose published material is replete with un- or thinly-disguised details as to the personal lives of himself and his intimates related in a highly engaging narrative voice, Seth has said that he is somewhat perplexed that his readers often in consequence presume to an unwelcome degree of personal familiarity with him. Contents Background Education Personal life Avocations ... edit Background Vikram Seth was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata ); his family lived in a number of cities including the

2. Vikram Seth Vikram Seth at www.contemporarywriters.com Born in 1952 in Calcutta, India, Vikram Seth was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth89

3. Bold Type: Interview With Vikram Seth Vikram Seth I didn t particularly intend to write a shorter novel. However, I did realize that if I were to write another novel equally long, it would take http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0599/seth/interview.html

old Type: Your last novel, the international best-seller A Suitable Boy , was 1,349 pagesthe longest single volume novel ever published in English. Did you purposely set out to write a shorter novel this time around? Vikram Seth: I didn't particularly intend to write a shorter novel. However, I did realize that if I were to write another novel equally long, it would take up another decade of my life. I wasn't very keen to do that. I also reckon that publishers aren't intrinsically fond of long novels; they're difficult to convince people to read...or to review for that matter. So I hoped that the inspiration for my next novel could be curbed within reasonable length, 300 to 400 pages. I guess I'm lucky that it has. I did threaten to cut off a digit for every extra 10,000 words above 100,000. All of my fingers are intact. BT: What was your inspiration for An Equal Music VS: After A Suitable Boy , I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: I ought to start writing. But I can never force myself to write. A little over a year ago, I was walking across a park in London with a friend. In my mind's eye, I saw a man. He was tall and European, but I knew he wasn't a Londoner. I didn't know anything about his profession. Dressed against the weather, he was staring fixedly at the Serpentine at the water. The image fascinated me. And it seemed quite important to what might have been germinating in my head for a novel. I asked my friend what profession he thought this man might be, and my friend, who happens to be a musician, said 'Definitely a musician.' I thought to myself:

4. Literary Encyclopedia: Vikram Seth Vikram Seth s work is characterized by the innovative recuperation of “unfashionable” and “traditional” forms such as the realist romanfleuve and the novel http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4020

5. VIKRAM SETH Vikram Seth was born in India in 1952. He studied at Oxford, Standford and Nanjing Universities, and spent two years in China doing research on economic http://www.rigzin.freeservers.com/vikramseth.htm

Free Web Hosting Provider Web Hosting E-commerce High Speed Internet ... Free Web Page Search the Web Profile of Indian Women Writers Anita Desai Arundhati Roy Gita Mehta Githa Hariharan Shauna Singh Baldwin Bapswi Sidhwa Homepage R.K. Narayan Githa Hariharan Amit Chaudhari ... Shashi Tharoor Interview with: Jhumpa Lahiri Vikram Seth R.K. Narayan David Davidar ... Quiz on Indo-Anglian Literature List of winners of Literary Awards: Booker Prize Commonwealth Prize View My Guest book Sign My Guest book The Suitable Boy Pico Iyer , a writer The Golden Gate : A Novel in Verse "An utterly original, utterly delightful novel." - Newsweek A tour de force of rhyme and reasonableness, The Golden Gate doesn't only compellingly advocate life's pleasures, it stylishly contributes another one to them.' - Sunday Times, London Three Chinese Poets: Translations of Poems by Wang Wei, LI Bai, and Du Fu 'Seth translates (these poets) with immense felicity....the poet's skill is evident in every cadence and rhyme.' - India Today All You Who Sleep Tonight 'Seth's poems touch the heart- and herein lies their appeal.' -

6. Saja.org :: Vikram Seth Vikram Seth s epic family novel, A Suitable Boy, was an international publishing sensation that won him millions of readers and favorable comparisons with http://www.saja.org/webinars/seth.html

Resources Events Members About SAJA ... Help 2:09 PM EST, Sun, Jan 27, 2008 Awards Awards Archive Chapter Events Convention 2005 ... SAJA SPONSORS VIKR SAJA WEBINARS - global events for anyone online A Conversation with Vikram Seth, bestselling author of "A Suitable Boy" and "The Golden Gate" - about his brand-new book, "Two Lives" and his career. Interviewing Seth: Sreenath Sreenivasan , SAJA co-founder and Aseem Chhabra , SAJA board member More on the book and author below, including publicist contacts. Listen to the archived conversation (when you go to that link, please register and then choose the Real Audio of Windows Media Player on the following page) Read report about the event by Sindya Narayanaswamy Read and comment on SepiaMutiny liveblog of the conversation See Preston Merchant photos of SAJA-NY event at Asia Society Nov. 17, 2005

7. Vikram Seth --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on Vikram Seth Indian poet, novelist, and travel writer known for his verse novel The Golden Gate (1986) and his http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9099522/Vikram-Seth

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8. Vikram Seth - Novelist Vikram Seth - Profile Of Vikram Seth - Biography Of Vikra Vikram Seth Novelist Vikram Seth - Profile Of Vikram Seth - Biography Of Vikram Seth. http://www.indobase.com/indians-abroad/vikram-seth.html

Indians Abroad Indians Abroad Amartya Sen Amitav Ghosh ... Indians Abroad : Vikram Seth This short biography of Vikram Seth traces the profile of this Indian author, writer and novelist. Vikram Seth Why Is He famous? The world famous writer and poet Vikram Seth was born in Kolkata, India. Vikram Seth possesses the art of creating a living and breathing world that keeps the readers focused and engaged. Vikram Seth has published 6 books of poetry and 3 novels. In 1986, Vikram Seth wrote The Golden Gate, his first novel. The publication of "A Suitable Boy", the 1,349 page mega novel propelled Seth into the public limelight. "A suitable boy" won the W.H.Smith prize in 1993. 'An Equal music' by Seth deals with the troubled love life of a violinist. For his services to literature, Vikram Seth has received one of Britain's top honors. The award of the commander of the order 3 of the British Empire was given to Seth in February 2001. Vikram Seth's latest work is "Two Lives" (2005), a memoir of the marriage of his great uncle and aunt. Vikram Seth has written some very fine poems also. His poetry includes Mappings (1980), From Heaven Lake (1983), The Humble Administrator's Garden (1985), All You Who Sleep Tonight: Poems (1990) and Three Chinese Poets (1992). His children's book, Beastly Tales from Here and There (1992) consists of ten stories about animals. Vikram Seth has also authored a travel book, From Heaven Lake: Travels through Sin kiang and Tibet (1983). It is an account of a journey through Tibet, China and Nepal. Vikram Seth was also commissioned by the English National Opera to write a libretto based on the Greek legend of Arion and the Dolphin. The opera was performed for the first time in June 1994.

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10. Cape Farewell Greenland Voyage 2007 » Vikram Seth Vikram Seth working in the upper mess of the Noorderlicht. (Photos Shiro Takatini) Vikram Seth Writer (UK/India). Vikram trained as an economist. http://voyage5.capefarewell.com/category/blogs/vikram/

Download the latest Flash Player to view video, audio and interactive content on this site. Cape Farewell Greenland Voyage 2007 Expedition Launch - 9th September 2007 Youth Expedition 14 - 23 September 2007 Greenland Voyage 23 September - 10 October 2007 Posts from Vikram Seth In the upper mess By Vikram Friday 5 Oct No Comments // View Vikram Seth working in the upper mess of the Noorderlicht. (Photos: Shiro Takatini) Tags: Vikram Seth By hannah Monday 24 Sep 1 Comment // View Tags: Aminatu Goumar Vikram Seth Profile: Vikram Seth By Vikram Thursday 20 Sep View Vikram Seth Writer (UK/India) Vikram trained as an economist. His first novel, The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse describes the experiences of a group of friends living in California. His acclaimed epic of Indian life, A Suitable Boy , won the WH Smith Literary Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Overall Winner, Best Book). He is also the author of the novel An Equal Music and the biography Two Lives , as well as Beastly Tales , a book of ten animal fables in verse, which includes the ecological tale ‘ The Elephant and the Tragopan’ Vikram Seth Tags: Vikram Seth Greenland Voyage Home and current location Latest from the Arctic ... Latest posts on the map Latest posts Nick Cobbing's photograph from the voyage in Time Magazine's Pictures of the Year Blosseville Coast - 3 Oct 2007 Pencil Method Draining back into this reality ... View all View Blogs Crew blogs (+) Show/hide Crew blogs Aminatu Goumar ... News Media Broadcast schedule Latest Images Latest Footage RSS feeds Take Part

11. Vikram Seth,seth Vikram,suitable Boy Vikram Seth,vikram Seth A Suitable Boy,vikr Born in Calcutta in 1952 to Prem Seth, a shoe company executive, and Laila Seth, a judge, Vikram Seth is the oldest of three children in the Seth family. http://www.indiavisitinformation.com/indian-personality/Vikram-Seth.shtml

Vikram Seth Born in Calcutta in 1952 to Prem Seth, a shoe company executive, and Laila Seth, a judge, Vikram Seth is the oldest of three children in the Seth family. He was sent away to Doon school, a prestigious boarding school for boys, at the age of six. As a young student Vikram was very shy, "Incapable of looking people in the eye," he says. But what he lacked in sociability, he more than made up by excelling at his studies. Did you know? In 1992, Vikram was invited to Doon School to give the Founder's Day speech. In his speech, Vikram confessed "I had a terrible feeling of loneliness and isolation during my six years here .I was teased and bullied by my classmates and my seniors because of my interest in studies and reading, because of my lack of interest in games, because of my unwillingness to join gangs and groups." After passing his 'O level' exams with distinction, Vikram won a scholarship to Tonbridge School in Kent, U.K. From Kent he soon went to the prestigious Oxford University on another scholarship and earned degrees in philosophy, economics, and politics. Not content with all this, Seth went to study at the Stanford University in the U.S. for a Ph D. in Economics. He spent the next 11 years "not getting the degree", as he says. Two of those years (1980-1982) were spent in China, where Seth studied poetry and languages at the Nanjing University of China. It was while in China that Vikram realized he was "more interested in poetry than economics."

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14. A Suitable Boy: Vikram Seth Vikram Seth s book is a delight, at once touching, humorous, and widely panoramic. It is really several novels in one. In one way it is the story of the http://www.accampbell.uklinux.net/bookreviews/r/seth.html

Vikram Seth A Suitable Boy Politics runs through the story as well, and Nehru himself appears occasionally; I have to say that for me these sections were less successful and I was tempted to skip some of the set speeches. Another minor problem at times was a certain vagueness about which language the characters were speaking. This matters, because the characters themselves make a lot of it; Lata's pompous brother Arun, for example, who is a yuppy before his time, is scornful of Haresh, Lata's husband-to-be, because his English is less than perfect (although, in a delightully ironic passage, he is eventually forced to admit that he, Arun, has never been to England while Haresh has lived and studied there). Mostly, however, Seth manages these linguistic transitions adroitly. Long though this book is, I wouldn't wish it shorter. In fact, it's so rich that when I reached the end I felt like rereading it; and I'm sure I shall. %T A Suitable Boy %A Vikram Seth %I Phoenix %C London %D 1993 %G ISBN 1 85799 9 %P 1474 pp Home Titles Authors Subjects

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Vikram Seth Sr. Design Engineer @ NVIDIA San Francisco Bay Area Contact Directly Get introduced through a connection Current Sr. Design Engineer at NVIDIA Past Lead Design Engineer at Redpine Signals Inc Design Engineer at Texas Instruments India Design Engineer at Paxonet Communications Education Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur SFC Connections connections Industry Semiconductors Experience in front-end design of complex ASIC modules, which includes macro-architecture, micro-architecture, RTL coding, verification, synthesis and STA. These modules are part of ASSP's for optical and wireless networking, and 3D graphics. Currently working on hardware imlpementation of state-of-the-art graphics processors at NVIDIA. Additional Information Forbes.com Entrepreneurs member Interested In: new ventures job inquiries business deals getting back in touch View Full Profile Public profile powered by: Create a public profile: Sign In or Join Now See who you and Vikram Seth know in common Get introduced to Vikram Seth Contact Vikram Seth directly View Full Profile Name Search Search for people you know from over 17 million professionals already on LinkedIn.

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17. AsiaSource Interview With Vikram Seth Vikram Seth s Two Lives is both a chronicle of a violent century seen through the eyes of two survivors and an intimate portrait of their friendship, http://www.asiasource.org/news/special_reports/seth.cfm

Asia TODAY latest news stories Ask ASIA educational resource Asia FOOD Asian food resource Asia STORE online bookstore Asia PROFILES Asia VIEWS ... LINKS related links Asia EXPERTS specialists database Asia EVENTS worldwide calendar Asiain NYC cultural travel guide Asia BULLETIN email updates RESOURCES Asian Holidays Chronologies Country Comparison Dictionary Tool ... press releases Information on the Asia Society, its programs, publications, exhibitions, regional centers, membership, and more. Stay informed of Asia Society events with free weekly updates. Subscribe Become an Asia Society Member and receive: invitations to member-only receptions, discounts on tickets to performances, films and lectures, and purchases at Asia Store; and much more. November 17 , 2005 Vikram Seth - Two Lives From the author of A Suitable Boy , this masterful fusion of memoir, biography and history creates an extraordinary tapestry of India, the Third Reich and the Second World War, Auschwitz and the Holocaust, Israel and Palestine, post-war Germany and 1970s Britain. Vikram Seth's Two Lives This interview with AsiaSource was conducted while Seth was in New York for a Meet the Author program at the Asia Society on November 16, 2005.

18. BookClubs.ca | Author Spotlight: Vikram Seth Vikram Seth s previous books include three poetry collections, a libretto, the travel memoir From Heaven Lake Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet, http://www.bookclubs.ca/author/results.pperl?authorid=27729

19. Meena Alexander A small, wiry soap opera enthusiast with welldefined features and a ready smile, vikram seth was born in Calcutta in 1952 (also the home of Indian literary http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Seth.html

Vikram Seth Biography A small, wiry soap opera enthusiast with well-defined features and a ready smile, Vikram Seth was born in Calcutta in 1952 (also the home of Indian literary giant Rabindranath Tagore ). Throughout Seth's childhood, his father Prem Seth was a shoe company executive and his mother Laila Seth served as a judge (Bemrose). Vikram Seth is the oldest of threehis brother conducts Buddhist meditational tours and his youngest sister serves as an Austrian diplomat (Robinson, Rachlin). After completing his primary education, Seth left India to study at Oxford University , England, earning a degree in philosophy, politics, and economics (a PPE degree). He further enrolled at Stanford University , intending to earn a PhD in Economics, but never completed his study. While at Stanford, Seth was also a also a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing from 1977-1978. During a period from 1980-1982, he studied classical Chinese poetry and different languages at Nanjing University , China. Seth mentions that he "never had any passion for economics, not what I felt for writing poetry" (Robinson). But Seth does comment upon his failure to complete a PhD: "I feel a bit of regret that I didn't finish my Ph.D. I'm interested in it, but it's not a passion, the way writing is" (Rachlin). Vikram Seth has published eight notable works - six collections of poetry and two novels - with a ninth novel soon to come. During the period before and after Seth published his first novel, he contributed poetic works for more than a decade. Seth's books of poetry include

20. Interview: Vikram Seth | By Genre | Guardian Unlimited Books Forever the child of his extended family, vikram seth turns his obsessional eye on his uncle and aunt in his latest book. Does he prefer to describe a http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,1567057,00.html

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