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    Vikram Seth, (born on 20June , 1952, Kolkata, India.

    Indian poet, novelist, and


    travel writer known for his verse novel The Golden Gate (1986) and his epic novel A
    Suitable Boy (1993).The son of a judge and a businessman, Seth was raised in
    London and India. He attended exclusive Indian schools and then graduated from
    Corpus Christi College, Oxford (B.A., 1975). He received a master’s degree in
    economics from Stanford University in the U.S. in 1978 and later studied at Nanjing
    University in China. In 1987 he returned to India to live with his family in New Delhi.
    He received many awards like WH Smith literary award, Cross word Book
    award,Pravasi Bhartiya Samman, Padma Shri in literature and education. Although
    Seth’s first volume of poetry, Mappings, was published in 1980, he did not attract
    critical attention until the publication of his humorous travelogue From Heaven Lake
    (1983), the story of his journey hitchhiking from Nanking to New Delhi via Tibet. The
    poetic craft of The Humble Administrator’s Garden (1985) foreshadows the polish of
    The Golden Gate. He continued to use controlled poetic form in his 1990 collection
    All You Who Sleep Tonight, and he also wrote the 10 stories of Beastly Tales from
    Here and There (1992) in tetrameter couplets. Later poetry collections included The
    Poems, Summer Requiem (2015).He turned to prose in A Suitable Boy, which
    depicts relations between four Indian families. The book’s compelling narrative and
    great length invited critical comparisons to Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, James Joyce,
    and Charles Dickens; a miniseries adapted from A Suitable Boy appeared in 2020.
    His next novel, An Equal Music (1999), is a story set in the world of professional
    musicians. Now I would like to share one of the poems by Vikram seth

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