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Vikram Seth (20 June 1952 - / Kolkata / India)
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Vikram Seth is an Indian poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer and memoirist.
Born and Early Life
Vikram Seth was born to Leila and Prem Seth in Calcutta (now Kolkata). His family lived in many cities including the Bata Shoe Company town of Batanagar, Danapur near Patna, and in London.
His younger brother, Shantum, leads Buddhist meditational tours. His younger sister, Aradhana, is a film-maker married to an Austrian diplomat, and has worked on Deepa Mehta's movies Earth and Fire. (Compare the characters Haresh, Lata, Savita and two of the Chatterji siblings in A Suitable Boy: Seth has been candid in acknowledging ... more »
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Popular Poems
- A Style Of Loving
- Across
- All You Who Sleep Tonight
- At Evening
- Distressful Homonyms
- From California
- How Rarely These Few Years
- Interpretation
- Last Night
- Mistaken
- Night Watch
- Octet
- Prandial Plaint
- Progress Report
SETH'S POEMS ARE SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL AND PACKED WITH KNOWLEDGE AND AT THE SAME TIME THOUGHT PROVOKING.
He is a great poet and I am a great fan of his poems. Thank You.
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how true this poem is.
Dear poet, I translated some of your poems in Bangla and were published in Bangla Newspaper here. My e-mail is: sayeed_jh@yahoo.com