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Amish Tripathi
Indian
Author
Born:
Oct 18
,
1974
Book
India
Me
Religion
Writing
You
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I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing MBA, engineering or medicine.
Amish Tripathi
History
You
School Days
School
Engineering
Medicine
India
Voracious
Days
Reader
Always
Doing
Been
End
Up
Loved
Anuj Bahari has always been a really good literary agent for me. What a good agent does is that he manages many of your business aspects so you can keep your time free for writing.
Amish Tripathi
Time
Good
Me
You
Business
Writing
Free
He
Does
Always
Been
Literary
Agent
Really
Aspects
Your
Many
Keep
I see everything like a movie. I laugh and cry, I smell, touch, see and describe my own experience. I don't care if this sounds strange; I am not the creator - I am only the channel. The story is given to me.
Amish Tripathi
Me
Strange
Experience
Care
Smell
Own
Channel
Everything
Laugh
See
Touch
My Own
Given
Only
Like
Cry
Am
Sounds
Movie
Story
Describe
Creator
In India, it is not a contradiction for religion and liberalism to co-exist.
Amish Tripathi
Religion
Liberalism
India
Contradiction
I think it's a fallacy to say that a good book sells itself. It doesn't happen. I'm a voracious reader and I can give you a long list of books which should have been best sellers but they aren't. How can you buy a book if you haven't heard of it?
Amish Tripathi
Buy
Best
Good
You
Book
Long
Think
Books
Say
Give
Long List
Voracious
Reader
How
Fallacy
Been
Heard
Sellers
Itself
Sells
List
Happen
Which
Should
Good Book
I don't think I'm any competition to the already-existing canon of writers in Kannada. How can I ever even think of comparing myself?
Amish Tripathi
Myself
Competition
Think
Writers
How
Any
Canon
Even
Comparing
Ever
India is a musical country, so it would appear obvious to use our collective passion for music to promote a book.
Amish Tripathi
Music
Book
Passion
Collective
Country
Our
Musical
Would
India
Promote
Obvious
Use
Appear
As a writer, it's important to stay true to your story without giving a hoot about publishers, critics and readers. You should do your karma as an author the way you want to, and rest is up to God.
Amish Tripathi
God
You
Karma
Rest
Giving
Important
Way
Hoot
Stay
Critics
Stay True
About
Writer
True
Readers
Without
Up
Author
Want
Story
Should
Your
Publishers
When the book is over, I think of innovative marketing ways to reach to a larger audience. I think wine and cheese book launch parties are a waste.
Amish Tripathi
Book
Cheese
Wine
Think
Innovative
Marketing
Ways
Launch
Over
Reach
Parties
Audience
Waste
Larger
I see a sense of unity in the universe. Spirituality is not limited to only one religion. One can experience it across different religions. I am fascinated by philosophy of Advaita and philosophy of unity. We have to get over the illusion that God is different from us.
Amish Tripathi
God
Religion
Experience
Illusion
Spirituality
Sense
Unity
Universe
Philosophy
Religions
See
Only
Over
Limited
Am
Get
Different
Us
Across
Different Religions
Fascinated
In the early '90s, I was disillusioned after the blasts and riots in Mumbai. I was in college and started thinking that religion was the root cause of all these evils. While my father told me not to blame religion because of a few bad people, I wasn't convinced. The faith was restored after I started writing my first book.
Amish Tripathi
Faith
Religion
Me
Blame
Book
People
Writing
Bad People
Cause
Father
College
First
Few
Thinking
Evils
Bad
Riots
Restored
Blast
Because
After
Disillusioned
While
Root
Convinced
Mumbai
Early
Started
My father's family hails from Banaras. My grandfather taught mathematics at Banaras Hindu University. Banaras is also dedicated to Lord Shiva, home to one of the great jyotirlings, the Kashi Vishwanath temple.
Amish Tripathi
Mathematics
Home
Great
Family
Father
Temple
Also
Hindu
Lord
Taught
Grandfather
Dedicated
University
The good news is that a vast majority of Indians from different religions see no contradiction between religiosity and liberalism, keep India stable. We religious liberals don't talk loudly enough.
Amish Tripathi
Good
News
Good News
Enough
Liberalism
Liberals
India
Religions
Religious
Indians
See
Vast
Vast Majority
Between
Talk
Majority
Contradiction
Loudly
Stable
Different
Different Religions
Keep
When I was young, I was an academically oriented guy like most academically oriented guys. I graduated in science, did an MBA. My dreams as a young boy were I wanted to be an industrialist, or I wanted to be a scientist.
Amish Tripathi
Dreams
Science
Young
Guy
Guys
Like
Academically
Most
Boy
Scientist
Were
Did
Graduated
Wanted
Oriented
If you have to write a fictional adventure to convey a philosophy of evil, the best person is the destroyer of evil himself, Lord Shiva.
Amish Tripathi
Best
You
Evil
Philosophy
Destroyer
Write
Adventure
Himself
Lord
Person
Fictional
Convey
Songs of different moods are like keys, which help me enter the world of my book's characters.
Amish Tripathi
Me
Book
World
Keys
Enter
Moods
Characters
Songs
Like
Different
Which
Help
Creating music is a wonderful way to celebrate our devotion for Lord Shiva.
Amish Tripathi
Music
Celebrate
Wonderful
Our
Way
Devotion
Lord
Wonderful Way
Creating
I never thought my ideas would actually get published.
Amish Tripathi
Thought
Would
Never
Ideas
Get
Published
Actually
I'm one of those lucky guys making a living out of something I really enjoy doing. That's a blessing. But you never know. What if my subsequent book series flops? I don't come from a wealthy background, so I'd be left with no choice. I'd have to go back into banking!
Amish Tripathi
You
Blessing
Book
Enjoy
Living
Back
Background
Those
Out
No Choice
Wealthy
Something
Guys
Never
Come
Know
Making
Making A Living
Doing
Go
Left
What If
Subsequent
Banking
Really
Choice
Lucky
Series
Flops
I never really wanted to be a writer. I know it sounds strange, but I honestly believe that I didn't pick the story; the story has picked me. I've written absolutely no fiction before 'The Immortals of Meluha.' Not even a short story in school - absolutely nothing.
Amish Tripathi
Me
Strange
School
Before
Nothing
Believe
Honestly
Immortal
Absolutely
Writer
Absolutely Nothing
Never
Pick
Picked
Written
Know
Sounds
Short
Fiction
Wanted
Short Story
Story
Really
Even
In any industry, the people with the freshest ideas usually come from outside.
Amish Tripathi
People
Outside
Come
Ideas
Industry
Any
In the India I was growing up in, history wasn't really a wise career option. People would joke and say, 'History's okay, but what's your actual job?' I didn't come from a privileged background and couldn't afford to be irresponsible, so I did the pragmatic thing and did a MBA.
Amish Tripathi
History
Wise
People
Job
Joke
Background
Say
Okay
Would
India
Come
Pragmatic
Up
Privileged
Option
Afford
Did
Irresponsible
Really
Your
Growing
Growing Up
Actual
Thing
Career
The youth in India tend to be rebellious, as with everywhere else, and that makes Shiva exciting. He has the rebellious qualities that the youths like.
Amish Tripathi
Youth
Else
Everywhere
India
Tend
He
Exciting
Like
Qualities
Makes
Youths
Rebellious
When I'm writing, I am lost in my book. Except family and close friends, I don't care about what critics, publishers or readers might think.
Amish Tripathi
Family
Book
Writing
Care
Lost
Think
Critics
About
Except
Readers
Am
Friends
Close
Close Friends
Might
Publishers
If your purpose is to make money, you shouldn't get into writing.
Amish Tripathi
You
Writing
Money
Purpose
Make
Get
Your
While in some countries there's a feeling that literature must stay away from religion, this is not so in India - in the Indian way, literature is just another means to find a more spiritual life, to find our way to God.
Amish Tripathi
Life
God
Religion
Spiritual
Feeling
Our
Way
Must
India
Find
Indian
Stay
Some
Spiritual Life
More
Countries
Another
Just
Literature
While
Means
Away
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