Vikram Chandra

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born

January 01, 1961 in New Delhi, India

gender

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http://www.vikramchandra.com/

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Literature & Fiction

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Vikram Chandra was born in New Delhi.

He completed most of his secondary education at Mayo College, a boarding school in Ajmer, Rajasthan. After a short stay at St. Xavier's College in Mumbai, Vikram came to the United States as an undergraduate student.

In 1984, he graduated from Pomona College (in Claremont, near Los Angeles) with a magna cum laude BA in English, with a concentration in creative writing.

He then attended the Film School at Columbia University in New York. In the Columbia library, by chance, he happened upon the autobiography of Colonel James "Sikander" Skinner, a legendary nineteenth century soldier, born of an Indian mother and a British father. This book was to become the inspiration for Vikram's novel, Red Earth and Pouri...more

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Books by Vikram Chandra

Average rating: 3.83 · 3,294 ratings · 587 reviews · 7 distinct works

	Sacred Games 3.92 avg rating — 1,859 ratings — published 2006 — 33 editions	My rating:
	Red Earth and Pouring Rain by Vikram Chandra, Jordan Pavlin (Editor) 3.78 avg rating — 809 ratings — published 1995 — 22 editions	My rating:
	Love and Longing in Bombay 3.55 avg rating — 565 ratings — published 1999 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Bombay Paradise (Sacred Games, 2) 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Godenspelen 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Terri Windling (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Edward Bryant (Contributor) 3.93 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Star: Catherine Yass by Catherine Yass, Vikram Chandra 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2001	My rating:

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“And so I began to read,' Sorkar said. 'And at first the complete works were like a jungle, the language was quicksand. Metaphors turned beneath my feet and became biting snakes, similes fled from my grasp like frightened deer, taking all meaning with them. All was alien, and amidst the hanging, entangling creepers of this foreign grammar, all sound became a cacophany. I feared for myself, for my health and sanity, but then I thought of my purpose, of where I was and who I was, of pain and I pressed on.”
― Vikram Chandra, Red Earth and Pouring Rain

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“So now that began to develop into a full-fledged shouting match of its own, and all in all it was soon a full-scale old-style Bombay tamasha, with people watching from every balcony and window in every building, up and down the road, laughing and giving advice and yelling at each other.”
― Vikram Chandra, Love and Longing in Bombay

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