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I love DC comics (especially Batman), Raj Comics (especially Super Commando Dhruva) and I would like at some point to write novels in French and Hindi.
I fear not living long enough to write and read as much as I would like to.
Writing books, getting full scholarship to do research in literature in France and Italy, and being offered a fully funded Ph.D. in the U.K.
Visiting the grave of Honoré de Balzac in Paris, I cried.
Reading about the suicide of Esther, a courtesan, in Balzac’s novel ‘Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes’.
Rahul Dravid
Batman
Professor Moriarty, the arch-nemesis of Sherlock Holmes.
Tough question, there are so many. Balzac being the absolute favorite, but I really admire John Milton, Ezra Pound, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya, Jeet Thayil, Salman Rushdie, Gustav Flaubert, Michel Houellebecq, Albert Camus, Premchand and Dostoyevsky. I am sure I have missed out a lot of names here.
Louis Lambert, Illusions Perdues, Splendeur Et Misères Des Courtisanes, Paradise Lost, Satanic Verses.
Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged
Not a big movie watcher, but I really enjoyed Aaron Sorkin’s TV series, The Newsroom.
To be able to completely do away with sleeping.
As Marx said on his deathbed ‘Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough!’. Marx and I rarely agree, but on this point, I am totally with him.
Most certainly Paris of 19th century, the paradise of novelists.
The talent of being able to lie convincingly.
Each author’s style is different, I appreciate many of them, but would not really enjoy being in any other author's shoes.
Mostly at night, in my flat, dorm, room, train etc. whatever my nomadic life allows.
I get things rolling with some music, but as soon as I get in the zone, I turn the it off.
No such phrase, but so far many my characters and the narrator seem to use a lot of curse words. Wonder what that says about me.
No.
I don’t know, calling a book ‘guilty pleasure’ would be pejorative. The words ‘guilty’ and ‘reading’ in the same sentence don’t make a lot of sense to me.
The process of writing in itself is far more rewarding than any eventual success of your book. So if you have a story to tell, start writing it.
Currently doing research in the 19th century French literature at the University of Sheffield, UK, Harsh Trivedi has previously worked as a teacher of French at the Alliance Française de Delhi. He has taught English and Indian culture at high-school and pre-university level in France (Dijon). A gold medallist, he graduated from the University of Delhi with a major in French and holds a Master’s degree in French and Francophone literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, where he was also the founder and editor of the student journal Le Canard Halal. You can reach Harsh Trivedi at harsh.france@yahoo.fr
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