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HOME CHAT TRANSCRIPTS CAFE ... EVENTS The Vikram Seth Chat 'Agar maine Awara Hoon na gaaya hota, to main abhi tak economist rahta' F or all those of us who stayed awake that night, he was on time. The first thing that strikes you about Vikram Seth, in India to promote his latest novel An Equal Music, is his height, which is of Napoleonic proportions. The writer whom Shobha De predicts will win a Nobel Prize spared more than his promised hour for The Rediff Chat, hosted from New Delhi, and we are pleased to say he enjoyed it as did those who were online with him. The poet and novelist mulled over his answers before keying in his replies. The questions came fast and furious, but Seth kept apace, till time ran out. Happily, he has promised an encore after his next book. Mr Vikram Seth: Hello, I am here for your questions. Natalia: Dear Mr Seth, I really loved A Suitable Boy, which I have just read. I read it in Finnish. Have your other books been translated in Finnish? Mr Vikram Seth: Natalia: I'm afraid that no other novels have been translated into Finnish so far, but An Equal Music

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@import '/includes/tbenh.css'; @import url(/bbcfour/styles/bullet2.css); Home TV Radio Talk ... A-Z Index 27 January 2008 Accessibility help Text only BBC Homepage BBC Television ... Contact Us Like this page? Send it to a friend! Vikram Seth b1952 Meridian Feature 4 October 1999 World Service Vikram Seth talks about his view of himself as a poet, the poetic nature of his novels 1 min 56 his love of music, his reasons for writing about music in An Equal Music 1 min 14 portraying a true sense of place 1 min 18 the expression of his own views and feelings in his books, why he studied philosophy, his wish to avoid too many didactic political messages 3 min 12 You will need RealPlayer to access these clips. Visit WebWise for help downloading RealPlayer Vikram Seth Indian poet and novelist Author of the epic best-selling novel of postcolonial India, A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth was also acclaimed for the virtuoso novel in verse, The Golden Gate. Read more About the BBC Help Advertise with us

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The Golden Gate It's Friday night. The unfettered city Resounds with hedonistic glee. John feels a cold cast of self-pity Envelop him. No family Cushions his solitude, or rather, His mother's dead, his English father, Retired in his native Kent, Rarely responds to letters sent (If rarely) by his transatlantic Offspring. In letters to The Times He rails against the nameless crimes Of the post office. Waxing frantic About delays from coast to coast, He hones his wit and damns the post. John looks downwards, as if admonished, Then slowly lifts his head, and sighs. Half fearfully and half astonished, They look into each other's eyes. The waiter, bearded, burly, macho, Says, "Madam, though it's cold, gazpacho Is what I'd recommend. Noisettes Of lamp, perhaps, or mignoninettes Of veal to follow...." Unavailing Are his suggestions. Nothing sinks Into their ears. "Ah, well," he thinks, "They're moonstruck. It'll be plain sailing. Lovers, despite delays and slips And rotten service, leave large tips." Why, asks a friend, attempt tetrameter?

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October 8, 2001 Celebrated author Vikram Seth to give free public lecture By John Newman Vikram Seth was born in Calcutta in 1952. He left India to study at Oxford where he earned degrees in philosophy, economics, and politics, and went on to study creative writing at Stanford and classical Chinese poetry in China at Nanjing University. Vikram Seth has been compared to George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, and Goethe. His first novel, The Golden Gate, is written entirely in tetrameter sonnets, something that had never been done in the English language before. The Suitable Boy, his prose fiction debut, examined multigenerational Hindu/Muslim conflict in 1950s India and holds the distinction of being the longest single volume ever published in English. But Seth is much more than a literary statistic in the Guinness Book of World Records. Eugene Robinson, a literary critic for the Washington Post called him, "the best writer of his generation." Other critics have compared him to George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, and Goethe. Since he was first published in 1980, Seth has produced six books of poetry and three novels. His latest novel

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Vikram Seth, the author of An Equal Music, discusses Indian writing, declares allegiance to poetry, and disagrees with Salman Rushdie June 23, 1999 A few decades ago English-language writing from the Indian subcontinent was primarily the province of Western journalists and travel writers. Of course there were many fine Indian writers R. K. Narayan, Nirad Chadhuri, and Khushwant Singh, among others but they remained largely undiscovered. It took a couple of pioneers, in the form of Vikram Seth and Salman Rushdie, to open the floodgates to the Western reading public. In 1981, Rushdie published Midnight's Children, an almost unbearably imaginative, and critically acclaimed, epic of modern India; in 1986, Seth wrote The Golden Gate, an improbably successful novel-in-verse, inspired by Pushkin's Eugene Onegin and set in California. Those books showed the Western publishing world that Indian writing could sell. Equally important, they gave confidence to the Indian writers who are making waves today. Recent Atlantic Unbound interviews: Sympathy for a Killer (June 17, 1999)

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Language: English [ others Albanian Basque Bulgarian ... Welsh Over twenty-two million books on members' bookshelves. Home Book Suggestions Zeitgeist Groups ... add a picture Author: Vikram Seth Also known as: Vikram Seth transl. V. Seth Vicram Seth Vickram Seth ... Vikram Seth Members Reviews Rating Favorited Conversations Books by Vikram Seth combine/separate works A suitable boy : a novel 1401 copies, 19 reviews An equal music 874 copies, 13 reviews The Golden Gate : a novel in verse 445 copies, 9 reviews Two lives 338 copies, 4 reviews 125 copies, review Beastly tales from here and there 102 copies, 3 reviews All you who sleep tonight : poems 43 copies, review 35 copies, 1 review A Suitable Boy: v. 1 16 copies, 1 review A Suitable Boy: v. 3 14 copies, review The humble administrator's garden 14 copies, review Arion and the Dolphin 12 copies, review A Suitable Boy: v. 2 11 copies, review Riot at Misri Mandi (Phoenix 60p Paperbacks) 6 copies, review The poems, 1981-1994 4 copies, review see all 26 books Member ratings Average: 0.5 stars 1 stars 1.5 stars

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Doon Online Life at a Glance Name: Vikram Seth Born: June 20, 1952, Calcutta, India. Education: Doon School, Dehra Dun, India; Tonbridge School, Kent; Corpus Christi, Oxford (BA 1975); Stanford University, California (MA 1979). Employment: Editor, Stanford University Press ('85-6). Publications: Poetry - Mappings (1981), The Humble Administrator's Garden (1985), All You Who Sleep Tonight (translation,1990), Beastly Tales From Here And There (1992); Travel - From Heaven Lake (1983); Publications: Novels - The Golden Gate (1986), A Suitable Boy (1993), An Equal Music (1999). Awards: Thomas Cook Travel Book Award (1983); Commonwealth Poetry Prize (1986); WH Smith Literary Award (1994). If you see an article on Vikram Seth in the press send it to us and we'll include it in this special section. Introduction He sold 100,000 copies of a book written completely in rhyme. While studying for a PhD. in Economics he went to China and published a travel guide. His second book, the voluminous A Suitable Boy earned him a handsome $1million in advances. It was the longest piece of fiction written since the 17th century. In Britain he has been likened to literary greats of the English novel. He is Vikram Seth and is in the press once again with the publication of his latest book, An Equal Music. As a Dynamic Dosco in the news, Doon Online has decided to devote a special section to him. Press Coverage 'Swimming In A Sea of Language': Linguistic Aspects of Vikram Seth's 'A Suitable Boy' (PDF) July 17, 2003 - Seth memoirs spark bidding war

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skip to main skip to sidebar The Chapati Kid All Truth is an Exaggeration; All Trees are Cherry Trees. Friday, October 12, 2007 The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth "Are the dead, too, defiled by sorrow, Remorse, or anguish? We who live Clutch at our porous myths to borrow Belief to ease us, to forgive Those who by dying have bereft us Of themselves, of ourselves, and left us Prey to this spirit-baffling pain. The countries round our lives maintain No memoirists and no recorders. Those who are born are too young, those Who die too silent, to disclose What lies across the occluded borders Or this bright tract, where we can see Each other evanescently." (13.10) Here's a passage from it that I simply adore, from one of my favourite authors. I didn't realize how many of his books I have on my shelf until I actually thought about it, and I have all but two. On my journey to Montreal, I decided to carry this one with me to read it again. Rarely do I ever pick up a book and re-read it. I remember a professor of mine at SLU talking to us about The Shadow Lines by Joseph Conrad. We had just finished discussing the book, and she told us to hold on to it. To read it again when we were older. And I still have it, but I haven't read it yet.

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A Literary Saloon Site of Review. Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. Contents: Main the Best the ... Links to e-mail us: the complete review - fiction An Equal Music by Vikram Seth general information review summaries our review links ... about the author Title: An Equal Music Author: Vikram Seth Genre: Novel Written: Length: 336 pages Availability: An Equal Music - US An Equal Music - UK An Equal Music - Canada Quatuor - France Verwandte Stimmen - Deutschland - Return to top of the page - Our Assessment: B- : decent touches, but too melodramatic and too earnest. See our review for fuller assessment. Review Summaries Source Rating Date Reviewer The Economist A The Guardian C+ Paul Bailey Hindustan Times A Khushwant Singh The Independent B- William Sutcliffe Literary Review B Caroline Moore Newseek C Carla Powers The New Yorker C David Denby The NY Rev. of Books D Tim Parks The NY Times Book Rev. C Nicholas Christopher The Observer C+ Adam Mars-Jones Salon B+ Akash Kapur The Sunday Times A+ John Carey Time (Asia) B+ Meenakshi Ganguly Time C Elizabeth Gleick The Times A- Claire Messud Review Consensus Sappy though opinions vary widely as to whether this a good or a fatal thing. Everyone agrees the music is handled well, otherwise no consensus.

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Jump to book subject area navigation Jump to general navigation Jump to start of page content Fiction ... Audio Search Books Authors Extracts Send to a friend Vikram Seth Vikram Seth was born in 1952. He trained as an economist and has lived for several years each in England, California, China and India. He is the author of A Suitable Boy, which was an international number one bestseller, An Equal Music and several other novels. He has also written five volumes of poetry including Beastly Tales. Author Title Format Date ... Price ISBN Vikram Seth An Equal Music (CD) CD Vikram Seth Illustrated Beastly Tales Hardback Vikram Seth An Equal Music Paperback Vikram Seth An Equal Music (Tape) Tape Vikram Seth Beastly Tales Paperback Vikram Seth Three Chinese Poets Paperback Vikram Seth A Suitable Boy Volume 1 Paperback Vikram Seth A Suitable Boy Volume 2 Paperback Vikram Seth A Suitable Boy Volume 3 Paperback Vikram Seth A Suitable Boy Paperback Vikram Seth From Heaven Lake Paperback RSS feed for Vikram Seth ( what is this? News Competitions Events ... Email newsletters RSS news feeds RSS author feeds Orion Publishing Group, Orion House, 5 Upper St Martin's Lane, London, WC2H 9EA

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Other Free Encyclopedias Brief Biographies Contemporary Novelists Vol 15 Vikram Seth Biography Find all books written by Vikram Seth on Amazon.com Nationality: Indian. Born: Calcutta, India, 1952. Education: Doon School, India; Corups Christi College, Oxford, B.A. 1975; Stanford University, M.A. in economics 1979; Nanjing University, 1982. Career: Senior editor, Stanford University Press, 1985-86. Awards: Thomas Cook travel book award, 1983, for From Heaven Lake; Ingram Merrill fellowship, 1985-86; Commonwealth poetry prize, 1986; Guggenheim fellowship, 1986-87; Sahitya Akademi award, 1988. P UBLICATIONS Novels The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse. New York, Random House, and London, Faber, 1986. A Suitable Boy. New York, HarperCollins, and London, Phoenix, 1993. An Equal Music. New York, Broadway Books, 1999. Poetry Mappings. Calcutta, Writers Workshop, 1981; London, Viking, 1994. Manchester, Carcanet, 1985. All You Who Sleep Tonight (verse play). New York, Knopf, and London, Faber, 1990. Beastly Tales from Here to There , illustrated by Ravi Shankar. New Delhi, Viking, 1992; New York, HarperCollins, 1994.

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Lifestyle Lounge Auto Reviews Entertainment Travel Here is a brief profile and biography of Vikram Seth. Read about information on Indian writer Vikram Seth. Home Indian Heroes Writers : Vikram Seth Profile @import url(http://www.google.com/cse/api/branding.css); Vikram Seth Profile Born: June 20, 1952 Achievement: Won the WH Smith Literary Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for his novel, A Suitable Boy. His travelogue "From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet" won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. Vikram Seth is a famous Indian poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer and memoirist. Vikram Seth was born on June 20, 1952 at Kolkata. His father, Prem, was an employee of the Bata India Limited shoe company who migrated to post-Partition India from West Punjab in Pakistan. Vikram Seth's childhood was spent in the town of Batanagar near Calcutta, Patna, and London. His mother Leila Seth was the first woman judge of the Delhi High Court as well as the first woman to become Chief Justice of a state High Court. She was the Chief Justice of Shimla High Court. Vikram Seth did his schooling from The Doon School in Dehradun. He took his undergraduate degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford University. He was enrolled in postgraduate economics courses at Stanford University and was also attached to Nanjing University for his intended doctoral dissertation on Chinese population planning.

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A Suitable Boy , the book that made Vikram Seth famous, is a grand, 1,349-page novel of newly independent India, religious intolerance, four families drawn into a quest for a proper marriage, and love's imperative. Upon its publication, Seth was declared Tolstoyan by many critics, but in conversation he conceals his gravitas behind an impish wit. At once quick and thoughtful, deadpan funny and reflectively poetic, Seth approached the perhaps dreaded author interview with enthusiastic focus. His intensity and bemusement ran electric across the miles between his place in London and mine in Chicago as we spoke on the phone a few weeks before Two Lives (HarperCollins), a family memoir and a portrait of a marriage, was released in the US. Born in Calcutta in 1952, the oldest of three children, Seth has roamed far and wide, but his bonds to his family remain strong. His mother served as a judge, his father was a shoe company executive, and both encouraged Seth to write, providing him with shelter and support during the seven years that he worked on the enormous manuscript that became A Suitable Boy . Prior to that epic undertaking, Seth had been a precocious student, traveling to England when he was seventeen to prepare for his application to Oxford. He stayed with his great-uncle, Shanti Behari Seth, and his German wife, Henny, and it is at that juncture that

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