Barkha Dutt on the Humans of COVID
Ideas of India
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How Do You Write a Book?
I don't ever prepare for a talk or an event. I have never en a piece of wood on a paper. This book was very painful for me to write, because i think i hadn't grieved for my father. It felt like i was part of this community of mourners, but none of us had mourned. And twice i called cickie and i said, i can't do the book. The other day, an mid sentence, i burst into tears. While the process of writing it was very difficult, writing a book needs a lot more work. There's a lot of reading i do. A lot of cross checking of facts that has to happen. There
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