Indu Muralidharan

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Indu's first novel The Reengineers (HarperCollins) is a metafictional exploration of the nature of reality, viewed through the relationship between the character of a novel and the author. Triumphing depression, self-love and self-empowerment and celebration of the many dimensions of joy in life are themes that run through her work. ...more

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Indu Muralidharan Aurora and Romney Leigh from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's epic verse novel. I think they are one of the perfect couples in literature, two independent…moreAurora and Romney Leigh from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's epic verse novel. I think they are one of the perfect couples in literature, two independent thinkers who loved each other and yet set out on separate paths as artist and philanthropist respectively, and returned to each other with the Voltarian realisation that “we must cultivate our garden ”. Soon after I moved to London, I made a literary pilgrimage to the Marylebone Parish church where the Brownings were married, where I read the last few passages from Aurora Leigh in the Browning room, the lines echoing the perfect partnership that the Brownings shared in literature and life.(less)
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I revisited Jeeves and the Wedding Bells after coming across a fine example of epistolary fanfiction in which Bertie enlists in the army and exchanges letters with Jeeves, with Aunt Agatha and then war separating the two. Jeeves and Wooster is the only kind of fanfiction I read, for there are only so many times one can re-read the original novels and short stories. Fanfiction is acceptable as a ho Read more of this blog post »
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“I already knew the next story that I was going to rewrite from the beginning, the way I wanted it. Mine.”
Indu Muralidharan, The Reengineers

“Voices have a language of their own and communicate much more than the words that they say.”
Indu Muralidharan, The Reengineers

“Conchpore is real. It is as real as Malgudi, Brahmpur, Lilliput or Macondo. And also as real as San Francisco, Madurai, Edinburgh, Gaborone or Tokyo. You know that fictional towns exist. You visit them all the time.”
Indu Muralidharan, The Reengineers

“Become aware of yourself. Everything will come to you, Chinmay, when you are in that most wonderful place on earth, the centre of your being. If you learn just one thing from this book, let it be that once you are aware of yourself, depression cannot hold you back any more than a tiger can be trapped in a spider’s web.”
Indu Muralidharan, The Reengineers

“How can we know the dancer from the dance? Did Yeats create his poems, or did his poetry make him a poet? How does one separate the creator from his
creation? They create each other. On a mutual plane of reference, one has no existence without the other.”
Indu Muralidharan, The Reengineers

“Did you know that Bharatiyar used the pen name “Shelley-dasan”? He admired the poems of Shelley so deeply that he wrote under the name “Shelley’s servant”. Wasn’t that a wonderful gesture of humility by someone
who was such a great poet himself? And later, Bharatiyar had his own dasan, the poet Subburathinam, who took
the pen name Bharathidasan. Subburathinam’s poetry inspired yet another poet who wrote as Surada, short for Subburathina-dasan. And to think this long chain of inspiration spans centuries, going back to the poets who inspired Wordsworth, who inspired Shelley, who inspired our own Bharati.”
Indu Muralidharan, The Reengineers

“If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.”
Joseph Campbell

“The way to find out about happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you are really happy — not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what is called following your bliss.”
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