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Ep 266: Ram Guha Reflects on His Life

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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Biography - How to Write a Good Biography

Always look for as many sources that do not emanate from the subject himself or herself. The literary quality of a biography is often determined by the secondary characters and how you flash out their relationships. An autobiography is a preemptive strike against a future biography, ok? That person wants to leave her or his record behind in order to preemt what the biographer would do. I think tathat artifice plays a part where you can't invent - it has been well said that a biographer is an artist under oath,. You cannot imagine your sources; you are constrained by what they tell you. And then of course, ser the subtlety of how you draw people in when yo

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