Saurabh Sharma
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1 day ago |
hindustantimes.com | Saurabh Sharma
Devin Gawarvala’s two-year-old venue in Ahmedabad, Bespoke Art Gallery, is currently hosting the ambitious Purusha Prakriti art exhibition curated by Uma Nair. Dedicated to artist Himmat Shah, who died in March this year – Head from his London series occupies a place of honour at the entrance of the gallery -- the works on display, according to the curatorial note, “symbolise the dual principles of nature and consciousness”.
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1 week ago |
hindustantimes.com | Saurabh Sharma
“We can endure any truth, however destructive, provided it replaces everything, provided it affords as much vitality as the hope for which it substitutes,” writes the Romanian philosopher EM Cioran in his classic The Trouble with Being Born. This quote characterises the Tanzanian-British novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah’s latest novel, Theft – his first since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021.
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1 week ago |
hindustantimes.com | Saurabh Sharma
Some stories in Stag Dance were previously self-published before your debut novel Detransition, Baby was published. Tell us about your publishing journey. Two of the stories in Stag Dance were originally self-published. From 2013 to 2017, I was part of a writing scene in Brooklyn that produced several writers who were influential to me, including Sybil Lam and Imogen Binnie. There was another group of writers — trans women writing for other trans women.
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2 weeks ago |
hindustantimes.com | Saurabh Sharma
How did you conceive the idea of writing Caledonian Road? Also, tell us about its wide cast of characters. I had been thinking about this book for a long time. I lived in Kings Cross in the 1990s when I was in my twenties and I was always overwhelmed by London as a place: a multiplicity of human beings from all over the world, their varied economic statuses, life experiences, and this multifarious, multicultural road, Caledonian Road stretching up through North London, that really interested me.
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3 weeks ago |
hindustantimes.com | Saurabh Sharma
Given its geohistory, Mumbai has attracted the attention of an outrageously large number of chroniclers. Even someone who has never been to the much-mythologised city can experience it through the art it has inspired. Though Mumbaikars may judge this as an inauthentic way of experiencing their metropolis, I too have learnt a lot about the place through its poetry — those ambivalent delights that one turns to, usually in the event of adversity.
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