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Necessary efforts

It's seven years now that writers, publishers, reporters, and above all hoards of readers who annually meet in Mantua for Festivaletteratura (literature festival) in September. Amid happenings of all sorts, readings, press conferences, and concerts all across the town centre, blockbuster authors meet and have a friendly bar-like chat with simple fo...

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Dec 01, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: 911, acknowledge, apathy, change, cocoon, culture, digitl age, do goodism, evolving, festivaletteratura, generation, lespresso, la repubblica, life, literature | Leave A Comment »

The way of the brush

Magazine -> #22 Kaizen

To improve one’s work by getting rid of what is unneeded through constant and repetitive exercise. This seems to be the key to a calligrapher’s success, but very often deciding what to leave is anything but easy. What has your experience as a student of calligraphy and as an artist and respectively as a writer been in this respect? Linda: As a...

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Nov 16, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: art, artist, brush, calligrapher, calligraphy, culture, exercise, expression, improvement, japanese, linda, mind, moment, novel, painting | Leave A Comment »

The magic of everyday

Magazine -> #24 Self Portrait

Your short stories frame the fascinating even if painful contrast between tradition and modernity. Do you recognise yourself in this contrast? India is a very old culture, and the eternal continuum between tradition, the past, and the present is something that is present in all Indians. There is no clear defining line that separates the two; India...

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Sep 18, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: bangalore, children, conflict, contrast, culture, everyday, experience, explore, family, human, india, indians, lavanya sankaran, life, literature | Leave A Comment »