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Vikram Seth is an Indian novelist and poet. He has written several novels and poetry books. He has received several awards such as Padma Shri, Sahitya Academy Award, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, WH Smith Literary Award and Crossword Book Award. Seth's collections of poetry such as Mappings and Beastly Tales are notable contributions to the Indian English language poetry canon. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. June 1952
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Works

A Suitable Boy
A Suitable Boy
Vikram Seth
An Equal Music
An Equal Music
Vikram Seth
A Suitable Boy
A Suitable Boy
Vikram Seth
An Equal Music
An Equal Music
Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth: 12 quotes1 like

Famous Vikram Seth Quotes

“Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.”

Vikram Seth A Suitable Boy

Source: A Suitable Boy

“Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.”

Vikram Seth book An Equal Music

Source: An Equal Music

“God save us from people who mean well.”

Vikram Seth A Suitable Boy

Source: A Suitable Boy

“All you who sleep tonight
Far from the ones you love,
No hand to left or right,
An emptiness above--

Know that you aren't alone.
The whole world shares your tears,
Some for two nights or one,
And some for all your years.”

Vikram Seth

“What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.”

Vikram Seth book An Equal Music

Source: An Equal Music

Vikram Seth Quotes

“Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?”

Vikram Seth book An Equal Music

Source: An Equal Music

“It's not the gods
But our own hearts
We need to fear.
The evil starts
Against all odds
Not there but here.”

Vikram Seth

Source: Arion and the Dolphin

“You too will marry a boy I choose,' said Mrs Rupa Mehra firmly to her younger daughter. Lata avoided the maternal imperative by looking around the great lamp-lit garden of Prem Nivas. The wedding-guests were gathered on the lawn. 'Hmm,' she said. This annoyed her mother further.”

Vikram Seth A Suitable Boy

A Suitable Boy (1993)

“Some men like Jack and some like Jill
I'm glad I like them both but still
I wonder if this freewheeling
Really is an enlightened thing,
Or is its greater scope a sign
Of deviance from some party line?
In the strict ranks of Gay and Straight
What is my status: Stray? Or Great?”

Vikram Seth

Dubious from &#x27;Mappings&#x27; (Writers Workshop, Calcutta, 1980). <br class="br">Repeated by Seth in online interview http://www.rediff.com/chat/vikchat.htm.

“Imagining the flower-pot attacked it
The kitten flung the violets near and far
And yet, who knows? This morning, as I backed it,
My car was set upon by a parked car.”

Vikram Seth

Malefic Things from All You Who Sleep Tonight (Viking/Penguin India, 1990).

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