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SPECIAL SERIES Vikram Chandra, 38 CREATIVE CUT Vikram Chandra was better known as the "other Vikram". Till Red Earth and Pouring Rain went on to win the Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best First Book (1996). His second, Love and Longing in Bombay, a collection of short stories exploring the underbelly of the city, won another Commonwealth prize ahead of heavies like Arundhati Roy. Marking time between Mumbai and Washington DC, where he teaches creative writing at the George Washington University, Chandra juggles with film scripts. "And when I get disgusted with compromises of filmmaking, I flee back to my computer, where I have complete control." He is in the midst of his third book, a novel that features "bhais, bootleggers, pickpockets, film producers, MLAs, writers, and other assorted shady types", says Chandra. Underbelly encore. -Nandita Chowdhury |
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