Brinda Charry on THE EAST INDIAN
Poured Over
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The Unexpected Comes In
I'm very aware that the individual life is shaped by historical forces. That's something I cannot get away from, which is why it's impossible for me to write a story just about an individual. At the same time you don't want your character simply to represent the historical process right? He has to be interesting in and of himself he shouldn't simply be a representation of history. And what always struck me and continues to strike me sort of at random moments is this boy all the way from India mean what was his life like and how strange and how bizarre and how lonely in some waysYou know there were moments of curiosity and happiness and joy we find them in the most in birds of circumstance
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