At the Author's Afternoon with Sanjay Chopra
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| With Sanjay Chopra and Tisca Chopra at Taj Bengal |
Sanjay
is
a
pilot
with
an
international
airline
and
has
been
flying
for
the
past
eighteen
years.
This
had
given
him
the
opportunity
to
explore
his
interest
in
the
history
of
various
cultures
and
lands.
He
spent
much
of
his
childhood
with
his
grandfather
who
was
an
avid
reader
and
a
brilliant
storyteller,
the
qualities
that
Sanjay
inherited
and
developed
from
his
formative
years
of
life.
What
particularly
caught
his
fancy
were
the
“gaps”
or
missing
links
in
history,
the
unknown
or
lesser
known
details,
that
became
the
source
of
his
fiction
and
the
collection
of
short
stories
the
he
has
penned
over
the
years
and
kept
his
readers'
interest
piqued.
A
course
at
the
London
School
of
Journalism
helped
him
to
hone
his
craft.
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| Sanjay signing a copy of his Book `Talespin' |
Of
the
stories
that
feature
in
this
collection,
Turache
won
the
Invisibe
Ink
and
the
Sunpenny
publishing
contests
in
the
UK.
A
Fate
Worse
Than
was
on
the
winners'
lists
of
the
Creative
Writers’
competition
and
Southport
Writers’
Circle.
Men
of
the
Horse
was
on
the
highly
recommended
list
of
The
Millennium
Writers
and
Fish
Publishing
awards.
The
Contractor
was
awarded
a
prize
at
the
Blood
Ink
Crime
Writing
Competition
and
the
entire
collection
of
short
stories
was
in
the
top
five
of
the
Alexander
Patterson
Cappon
Prize
for
fiction.
Tisca,
his
actress
wife,
was
in
conversation
with
him.
I
had
met
Tisca
for
the
first
time
during
Mountain
Echoes
Literary
Festival
in
Bhutan.
Yesterday’s
Author's
Afternoon
had
two
new
features,
it
is
the
first
time
we
had
an
author
whose
book
was
based
on
short
stories
and
also
the
first
time
a
husband
and
wife
were
on
the
dais
in
conversation.
In
the
evening
hosted
a
dinner
for
Sanjay
and
Tisca
Chopra
with
a
few
friends
at
my
home.
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bee
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