Books
Gemini
That I oppose bigotry and religious cultural chauvinism and believe in philosophy of the Vedic Hindu period. That I am especially interested in Kashmir current affairs as well as Kashmiri culture and poetry etc. That I have a great interest in cooking and photography.
That someday I will not be able, physically and mentally, to write my books and poetry.
That I have almost completed an English book of readings from the Bhagwad Gita in Verse in nearly 200 stanzas.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev,
Siddhartha in the novel by Herman Hesse.
Hemingway. Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Leo Tolstoy. Joseph Campbell Jean Paul Sartre. John Steinbeck
The Old Man And The Sea, Dr. Zhivago, War And Peace, Grapes of Wrath, Anna Karenina, The Prophet, A Tale of Two Cities, The Principal Upanishads.
War And Peace.
Dr Zhivago. War And Peace. Lawrence of Arabia. Shane. Zorba The Greek.
To disappear at will.
Epitaph: He believed nothing except what was true to him. He valued the words of all who had true ideas. Reading and writing was bliss to him. Bio Last Line: The journey of thought was eternal to him and the only immortality.
Childhood near the sea near Bombay; Adolescence in Kashmir; Adult life in Australia and Silver Years in a cottage in Shimla overlooking forest and mountains.
To be able to play the piano.
A Tale of Two Cities
In my study at home in mornings till lunch.
Silence.
Live life to the fullest.
Write only with ink fountain pens
If a passage you have written does not feel nice to you then scrape it even if you felt at first it was great and when writing something, if you feel the thought energy fading then leave it aside for days or weeks and come back to it when the words and sentences for that work start coming to you wherever you are.
Vijay N Shankar is a New Delhi-based writer who has spent his adult life working as a journalist. He has been a war correspondent, an investigative reporter for national newspapers such as Indian Express and The Statesman, a magazine editor, and scripted films on Indian culture and philosophy for the Ministry of External Affairs, and television. Post-retirement, Shankar has functioned as a full-time writer. He has authored two books of poetry: Rusted Laughter and The Other Time. His works of fiction include a collection of short stories: The Music Man; and a novel: Storm in Kashmir. His non-fiction works feature the well-received coffee-table editions: The Golden Temple, The Guru Granth Sahib and Anandpur Sahib. This trilogy on the Sikh religion was the outcome of his belief that the Sikh gurus gave all of us a new philosophy by cohering life with spiritualism. Based on his own experiences with dialysis, his book, There is Life After Dialysis (2013), filled glaring lacunae on the subject. Shadow Boxing With The Gods was work-in-progress for nearly five years, during which period Shankar also wrote, Gandhians In Blue Jeans – a book for young people, and created graphic adaptations of Jim Corbett’s The Man Eaters of Kumaon and Hermann Hesse’s Noble Prize-winning work, Siddhartha. Vijay Shankar can be reached at shankarvijayn@gmail.com
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