Books
Sagittarius
Was the lead singer of my college rock band, wrote a play when I was six years old, I dislike sleeping
Obscurity
Yet to come
Getting my first book published
My parents
Rorschach
Vito Corleone
Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, Satyajit Ray, John Grisham, Stephen King, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, PG Wodehouse
Midnight’s Children, Laughable Loves, 100 Years of Solitude, Uncle Fred in Springtime, The Dark Knight Returns
The Dark Knight Returns
Sholay, Lagaan, American Beauty, Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron, Star Wars Original Trilogy
Invisibility
I tried to save the world, so that the world would save me.
Jazz Age, Bombay for childhood, 70s Bombay for adult life, 80s Bangalore for silver years
Drawing and Painting, so that I could make comic books
100 Years of Solitude
Mostly on a sofa in my house
Music
I write without making notes, getting directly into the subject matter
Hindi pulp fiction
Persevere, believe in yourself if not your material, and practice is the key, give yourself tasks and deadlines.
Born in a small town of UP called Gonda, Vaibhav Srivastav spent his childhood in small cities like Sonpur, Lucknow and Baroda, studied in Banaras and Delhi, and worked in Bangalore and Mumbai. He has devoured a veritable feast of novels and short stories from an early age. During this journey of living in a wide variety of cities and towns he has collected innumerable experiences, and these experiences have helped him put his stories on paper. Vaibhav presently works as the Area Business Manager of Mumbai for Titan Company Ltd. He has studied management at Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Delhi and engineering from Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University. He runs a blog on films called Filmistani (www.philmistani.in) and is also a moderator of a popular socio-political humour page on Facebook called Bhak Sala which is currently followed by more than 5 and a half lakh people. The collection deals with tales of magical realism, stories wherein ordinary humans are placed in extraordinary conditions, reflections on mortality, divinity and also certain stories about love, longing and nostalgia.
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