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Vikram Seth

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    Novelist and poet Vikram Seth at the launch of Vinod Mehta's book, Editor Unplugged, in New Delhi.

    Photo by Sanjay Rawat/ Outlook
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    Novelist and poet Vikram Seth at the launch of Vinod Mehta's book, Editor Unplugged, in New Delhi.

    Photo by Sanjay Rawat/ Outlook
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    From left, Founder Editor-in-Chief of Outlook Vinod Mehta's Wife and novelist and poet Vikram Seth at the launch of Vinod Mehta's book, Editor Unplugged in New Delhi.

    Photo by Sanjay Rawat/ Outlook
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    At Home In Patna That brilliant, indefatigable visitor of literary meets, Vikram Seth, signs yet another autograph at the Patna Literature Festival, accompanied by Justice Leila...

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    Vikram Seth reads out from 'A Suitable Boy' at 'Polls Apart', with Mark Tully & Ramachandra Guha at Kalam 2014, the Kolkata Lit Meet.

    Courtesy - valueabled on Twitter
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    Vikram Seth autographs books for his fans at Kalam 2014, the Kolkata Lit Meet.

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    Vikram Seth during a question-answer session at Kalam 2014, the Kolkata Lit Meet.

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    "...I Am A Criminal"  So spoke the reclusive and reticent Vikram Seth, as he led the campaign to "support the overturning of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, a colon...

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Website
  • MP Govt Orders Probe In Temple Kissing Scene In Netflix's 'A Suitable Boy'
    Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra hints at taking legal action against the makers of the series.
    Nov 22, 2020
    | PTI
  • Netizens Fume Over 'A Suitable Boy', Urge Youngsters To #BoycottNetflix
    Netizens have expressed outrage over a scene from the miniseries portraying an interfaith couple
    Nov 22, 2020
    | Outlook Web Bureau
  • BBC To Adapt Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy As First Period Drama With a Non- White Cast
    Piers Wenger, the BBC’s head of drama has called it “a deliberate gamble” to adapt a drama with no white characters.
    May 05, 2017
    | Outlook Web Bureau
  • 'This Is The True Unnatural Crime'
    "This is the true and natural good/To undo justice, and to seek/To quash the rights that serve the weak". The poet responds to the Supreme Court's refusal to review its verdict criminalising gay sex.
    Jan 29, 2014
    | Vikram Seth
  • 'People Are Not Fools'
    'It is election time. Everyone knows the truth...the government knuckled under and enforced this disgrace because of power and politics and the misuse of religion'
    Jan 30, 2012
    | Vikram Seth
  • 'Section 377 Violates Fundamental Human Rights'
    We, concerned Indian citizens, support the overturning of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, a colonial-era law dating to 1861, which punitively criminalizes romantic love and private, consensual sexual acts between adults of the same sex.
    Sep 16, 2006
    | Vikram Seth Swami Agnivesh Soli J. Sorabjee Nitin Desai Aditi Desai Lakshmi Sahgal Siddharth Dube
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  • Bibliofile
    As Random House and Harper battle over Yuvi, a gawky Vikram Seth stars in the Absolut vodka ad.
    Dec 10, 2012
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  • The Book Of Hours
    Vikram Seth’s new book, a form-defying marvel, is shaped out of his life’s ephemera
    Dec 12, 2011
    | Sheela Reddy
  • Under a younger sun: Vikram Seth sunbathing in San Fransisco in 1986
    'I Wish More Writers Would Fight For A Big Advance'
    The author, whose sequel to his popular novel has got him a record advance, reportedly around Rs 14 crore, on almost everything under the sun but the actual writing
    Jul 20, 2009
    | Sheela Reddy
  • "It Took Me Long To Come To Terms With Myself. Those Were Painful Years."
    If there's one thing Vikram Seth loathes more than crusades, it must be prying personal questions. And yet here he is not only laying bare his bisexual heart and soul but also leading a high-profile signature campaign to get rid of the infamous Secti
    Oct 02, 2006
    | Sheela Reddy
  • 'You Can Talk Good Ideas Out Of Existence'
    The 'kind but fairly reticent' writer opened up a bit at the suggestion that his mother/muse/mentor ex-Justice Leila Seth be included, making it a three-way conversation...
    Oct 24, 2005
    | Sheela Reddy
  • Seth In His Ways
    Vikram Seth is versatility itself, whether he's doing verse, prose, or Chinese calligraphy
    Mar 25, 2002
    | Sheela Reddy
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  • S 377 Judgment 'A Stain' On SC: Vikram Seth
    S 377 Judgment 'A Stain' On SC: Vikram Seth
    Dec 11, 2013
  • And Now, Vikram Seth's Suitable Girl
    And Now, Vikram Seth's Suitable Girl

    Mike Collett-White writing for Reuters:

    LONDON (Reuters) - Indian poet and novelist Vikram Seth is writing a sequel to his acclaimed, monumental story "A Suitable Boy" to be titled "A Suitable Girl."

    Penguin imprint Hamish Hamilton bought the English language rights to the new novel, excluding the United States, from Seth's agent David Godwin, and expects it to be published in 2013, 20 years after the original book.

    Asked why he was returning to his best-known work, which sold more than a million copies in its UK paperback edition despite being more than 1,300 pages long, he replied:

    "I think it's just that I suddenly got the idea not of taking up the story in 1952 where I had left it, but rather to take it up in the present.

    "In other words, not just a sequel but to write what you could call a jump sequel," he told Reuters in an interview.

    More here

    Incidentally, Vikram Seth had come out prominently to "support the overturning of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, a colonial-era law dating to 1861, which punitively criminalizes romantic love and private, consensual sexual acts between adults of the same sex"

    Also See:  "It Took Me Long To Come To Terms With Myself. Those Were Painful Years."

    Post Script: It’s wonderfully good, humane, says Vikram Seth

    Jul 02, 2009
  • Two Hurt, Nobody Dead
    Two Hurt, Nobody Dead

    Ian Jack, while making a perfectly valid point in the Telegraph about how the method of choosing Oxford’s Professor of Poetry needs a radical rethink, tells this delightful story:

    ... I made the mistake of publishing a 13-word poem by Vikram Seth called “Sampati”, about the eponymous character in the Ramayana who, like Icarus, flies too near the sun. We added this information in an epigraph and footnote to the poem, without telling the poet, and Vikram was so furious that he made us publish the poem again in a later edition minus its informative dressing. This took up more space than you might think for a thirteen-word poem, because every word had a line to itself apart from “un-done”, which took up two.

    We were only trying to help the ignorant reader, but we were definitely in the wrong. After all, how many footnotes does T.S. Eliot have? (Not enough.) 
    It is just for these sort of things that I have always liked Vikram Seth. Now I like him even more.  As for the headline and the contents of this post, well, maybe you do need to read more about the poets Walcott and Padel and Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
    Jun 07, 2009
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News
  • Vikram Seth Backs Sahitya Akademi's Condemnation of Writers' Killing
    Vikram Seth Backs Sahitya Akademi's Condemnation of Writers' Killing
    Oct 23, 2015
  • Will Wait for Akademi Decision to Return Sahitya Award: Vikram Seth
    Will Wait for Akademi Decision to Return Sahitya Award: Vikram Seth
    Oct 21, 2015
  • Writers Action of Returning Awards Not Concerted: Vikram Seth
    Writers Action of Returning Awards Not Concerted: Vikram Seth
    Oct 20, 2015
  • Vikram Seth Comes Up With New Poetry Collection
    Vikram Seth Comes Up With New Poetry Collection
    Apr 14, 2015
  • Vikram Seth Responds in Verse to SC Decision on Gay Sex
    Vikram Seth Responds in Verse to SC Decision on Gay Sex
    Jan 29, 2014
  • Vikram Seth in Contract Negotiations Over <i>A Suitable Girl</i>
    Vikram Seth in Contract Negotiations Over A Suitable Girl
    Jul 09, 2013
  • Vikram Seth, Mahasweta Devi Popular in Pak: Fahmida Riaz
    Vikram Seth, Mahasweta Devi Popular in Pak: Fahmida Riaz
    Mar 24, 2013
  • Vikram Seth Turns Painter for Absolut Ad Campaign
    Vikram Seth Turns Painter for Absolut Ad Campaign
    Sep 22, 2012
  • Religion Being Misused: Vikram Seth on Rushdie Row
    Religion Being Misused: Vikram Seth on Rushdie Row
    Jan 26, 2012
  • 'A Suitable Boy' Sequel Set in Contemporary India: Seth
    'A Suitable Boy' Sequel Set in Contemporary India: Seth
    Jan 24, 2011
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