It is a kind of meditative process when you begin writing and the story and character begin to grow.

For me, everything starts with an impression I could imagine a character and what his life could be like. I donвЂ™t think that most writers have a conscious scheme. What are the most important elements in your stories, without which you would not enjoy your plotsIJ How do you design your characters and storylinesIJ It made me believe that I wanted to be a writer. Doongaji House was the beginning of my writing career I was 21 then. Somebody else staged it 10 or 12 years later and it was a huge success. They also underlined that this play had no commercial potential. The management said the actor had to be as grand as King lear and hence it was tough to find someone as apt. Sometimes, changes were required in the scenes and sometimes there was a lack of an actor to portray the protagonistвЂ™s role. The play faced innumerable logistical hurdles. It was a serious play that I had written titled Doongaji House and it has been published by the Sahitya Akademi. When I was about 20, there was a drama group in Bombay called the Theatre Group which had placed advertisements inviting entries for a playwriting competition. I began writing in my school days I used to write for the school magazine and writing continued till I was in college. What is your earliest memory as a writerIJ I am 58 now, and I donвЂ™t really like to party itвЂ™s a part of my personality. Are you evasive by natureIJД®vasive would be the wrong term to use because it would mean that I hide from the outside world. You have been writing for decades but we rarely see you make a public appearance or being interviewed.

Settled in Kodaikanal in Tamil Nadu, Mistry was recently in Delhi for his DSC Prize tour across the country. He has been a freelance journalist and had been working a job for a long time but he says that he is now a full-time writer. Written over three decades, the stories re-establish Mistry (who is also the brother of another gifted writer Rohinton Mistry) as one of the greatest writers of his time. His first collection of short stories Passion Flower (Aleph) is mysterious and вЂderangedвЂ™, and his characters stand on a thin line between fantasy and reality. The prize brings South Asian writing to a new global audience through a celebration of the achievements of South Asian writers, and aims to raise awareness of the culture around the world. AuthorsвЂ™ writings should pertain to the South Asian region in terms of their content and theme in order to to be eligible for the award. Instituted in 2010, the DSC Prize for South Asian literature celebrates the rich, vast and versatile world of literature, particularly of the South Asian region. Parsis believe in dedicating the body to Mother Earth once the soul is separated from the body after death. The Parsis neither cremate nor bury the dead - the khandhias collect the bodies from home and perform the last rites after which they are left at the Towers of Silence to decay or be consumed by vultures. Set in pre-Independence Mumbai, it documented the lives of the corpse bearers or khandhias belonging to the Parsi community. His plays have won multiple awards, and in 2014, his second novel, Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer (Aleph, 2012), won the DSC Prize for South Asian literature, making him the second Indian to have won the award. His short story Percy was adapted into a Gujarati feature film.

Written over three decades, the stories re-establish Mistry (who is also the brother of another gifted writer Rohinton Mistry) as one of the greatest writers of his time, says Ananya BorgohainД¬yrus Mistry began his writing career at the age of 21 when he wrote his play Doongaji House, which has acquired a classic status in contemporary Indian theatre in English today. His first collection of short stories Passion Flower is mysterious and вЂderangedвЂ™, and his characters stand on a thin line between fantasy and reality.

Myanmar love story book 2014