UshaAnandaKrishna

Author, sometime architect, now building cloud castles. Loves, loves, loves beautiful buildings. And cold beer

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At yesterday’s book reading of #JMullickRoad at #Bengaluru #Books #BookReview @speakingtiger14

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@simongerman600 @calamur I suppose it's one way of saying we're standing tall. The absurdity of it. O tempora! O mores!

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@rexrao52 Thank you! All well. As I hope with you. Catch up sometime - not in town till May!

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@rexrao52 You haven't said who you are! I give up! Please let me know?

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@rexrao52 Oh goodness! Of course! Blast from the past! Hello!

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@rexrao52 @SandipGhose 🙏

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@rexrao52 @SandipGhose Thank you, again! It's The Escapists of J Mullick Road.

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@rexrao52 @SandipGhose Thank you - you'll be increasing sales by 100%! Thank you Sandip, too, for the generous commission waiver!

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@rexrao52 @SandipGhose Yes, but who is this? Don't have your name!

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@rexrao52 @SandipGhose Yes!

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Well, the season of litfests is over and now those who write can get on with their writing without performance anxiety - that I suffer from - and those who hustle - which I sadly can't do - can rest their pitches. Hallelujah!

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@NirmalaGovindar Hey Nimmie! Reading your terrific new book - Hunger's Daughters! You have a way with language - sinuous comes to mind! I wish you gobs of good luck.

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The difference between writers and critics is that in order to function in their trade, writers must live in the world, and critics, to survive in the world, must live in literature. That’s why writers in their own work need have nothing to do with criticism... (Grace Paley)

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The only truth in these times is the fiction woven by storytellers. At least they are true to their art

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An interview with me for my novel in Hindu's Metroplus! I hope it will kindle interest and curiosity, and explain the novel a little. For the rest, READ IT! The novel, I mean. (This is unabashed peddling!)
https://t.co/evNs6M81jV

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@cadalnon Mariangela! That is so yummy!! Eat a piece for me!

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In my novel The Escapists of J Mullick Road, one of the protagonists, the architect Biren Roy, says one has to continue engaging with the mind, against all odds - in his case an indifferent and ignorant city - because that's what keeps civilization afloat.

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A favourite quote from Saul Bellow's Augie March:
"I may well be a flop at this line of endeavor. Columbus too thought he was a flop, probably, when they sent him back in chains. Which didn’t prove there was no America."

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@kishwardesai1 Congratulations, Kishwar! Happy to know! Will read it.

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TS Eliot's dictum: "There is no method except to be very intelligent". #TuesdayThoughts