Chandrahas choudhury biography of william

Eliot and Leonard Cohen. He began writing a novel after dropping out of the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology in After battling depression and more than twelve different drafts over a decade, he finally finished the novel in He lives in Bengaluru with his wife and two dogs. Anuradha Roy was born in in Kolkata. She published her first few stories when she was only fourteen, however, her first novel came out when she was forty: "I don't think I could have written it earlier - something in my world and myself needed to change before I could write fiction.

She designs book covers for the publishing house she is a part of and if she didn't write, making books is what she would be doing full time. She is also a potter: "I don't feel the need to become a ceramic artist or to sell or exhibit. It gives me a deep, wonderful pleasure to just drink coffee from a mug or eat in a bowl I first knew as a bucket of clayey slurry.

She lives in Ranikhet. Amitabha Bagchi was born in in Delhi. He is the author of three novels. The first, Above Average, was a bestseller. His second novel, The Householder , was published to critical acclaim and the third, This Place , was shortlisted for the Raymond Crossword Book Award He picked up the notion that telling stories was something worth doing when his father told stories at the dining table - of encounters with amusing or important people, or interesting things he had come across in his travels.

Bagchi is also a computer science professor in New Delhi. His day job throws up complex and engaging problems that he thinks is very useful to have when you need to think away from a writing project, which is often. The writing, in turn, acts as an escape route that allows him to put knotty research problems on the backburner. A colleague once asked him: "One of these is a hobby, the Computer Science or the writing.

Which one? They are both hobbies, and they are both my job. Bagchi lives in Delhi. Devi Yesodharan was born in in Kollam, Kerala. She grew up in the Middle East and changed schools six times, because of her parents' frequent moves. Perhaps that is one of the reasons the main character in Empire , Aremis, is a migrant. Yeshodharan loves art and is a fan of the American painter Georgia O'Keefe.

She has always had a day job, partly because she feels she wouldn't manage the writing if she had to face it every day alone with no interruptions. She lives in Bangalore and works as a co-founder on Trendlyne, a financial investing platform. Kiran Nagarkar was born in in Mumbai. He is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Cuckold , which won the Sahitya Akademi Award in One of the sharpest critics of India's socio-political scenario, he is also the author of the play Bedtime Story , which was banned for years, and the screenplay Black Tulip , published as a single volume in Nagarkar also writes in Marathi.

While editing a Marathi magazine for a friend's father, he began writing his very first short story in his mother tongue, with which he had lost all contact for nearly 18 years.

Chandrahas choudhury biography of william

From that emerged his first novel, Saat Sakkam Trechalis, in All you need to do is learn two or three other languages and you will be lost forever in the world's greatest treasure houses. He enjoys music, books, travel, movies, nature and life. Any genuine art, he says, has always got its mouth, ears and eyes open to swallow what it sees, hears, tastes, so that it can transform whatever it has imbibed when the situation and the art demand it.

Jeet Thayil was born in in Mamalaserrie, Kerala. With a father who is a writer too, he grew up to the sound of a manual typewriter in various small apartments in Bombay, Hongkong and New York. He believes that the actual trigger for any art is the presence of a psychic wound that will never heal. His first written work was a poem. Thayil is also a musician and songwriter.

He often performs with his Delhi band: Still Dirty. He enjoys art and travels long distances to experience it. For him, cooking is a pleasure and a meditation. To sustain himself, he needs to read. It is the only thing he cannot do without. He lives in Bangalore. Nayantara Sahgal was born in in Allahabad. Her trigger to write was the fact that she had grown up during the years when Indians were fighting for freedom - a fight in which her entire family was involved: "It became the stuff of my fiction and non-fiction … my background and my values.

It was supposed, as was a woman, to know its place. She loves music, both Indian and western classical. She also loves old Hindi movie songs, jazz and swing, Sinatra and the like. Art History was one of her favourite subjects at Wellesley College, near Boston: "I don't know what I would do in a world without music and art. Or a world without great writing.

These are what sustain and comfort and inspire, and keep one company. She lives in Dehradun. Shubhangi Swarup was born in in Nashik. She is a print journalist, filmmaker, novelist and an educationist. Talking of Latitudes of Longing , which is her first novel, she says: "I wanted to use my first chapter in the application for a fellowship but I was told that it lacked flow.

This naturally upset me. She has volunteered for diverse causes since her teens. She has studied conflict management, taught street children and worked against sexual violence. She calls herself "a hopeless backpacker" and loves to travel, which is one of the reasons why the novel goes through so many beautiful and intriguing places.

Tools What links here. Related changes. Special pages. Printable version. Permanent link. Page information. What links here. These are consistent, only the combinations every day and you never know what it is going to be like each day. What is your first memory of literature? This is bit of a trick question because your first memory is usually not your most important memory.

I think the most stable memory of my childhood was, my apartment being filled with books. It is a trait I share with my father, of being a book hound. Earlier people would give away almost their entire libraries and they would end up in second hand bookshops. The login details that you entered were not correct. Your subscription is no longer active please visit us here to subscribe.

Please enter the account details that you created whilst subscribing. Not a subscriber?