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"I think on the ground in the West,I love chasing dreams, says Shamir whose unconventional and out of the box ideas have resulted in international collaborations with popular artists like UKs Blue for a song on Bipasha and Abhishek – remember One LoveAraash and Aneela in Bluffmaster for hits like Bure Bure and Say Na Say Na and even with Bob Sinclair for World Hold On Recentlyhe got Lata Mangeshkar on board for Bhandarkars flicks Meanwhileglobal entertainment giants like Walt DisneyImaxWarner Brothers and Sony are signing up huge contracts with Indian animation companies Founded in 1962Shemarooafter working in booksfilmsand televisionis on to their next adventure – animation film All the best For all the latest Chandigarh News download Indian Express App More Related NewsWritten by Agencies | Srinagar | Published: October 5 2010 2:25 pm Related News Normal life was again disrupted in Kashmir on Tuesday as authorities reimposed curfew in parts of the Valleyincluding Srinagar cityahead of a protest march called by hardline Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani to Kupwara district To maintain law and order ahead of the marchauthorities imposed curfew in areas falling under jurisdiction of six police stations in SrinagarDelinaPalhalan and Sopore towns of Baramulla district and Kupwara district town along with adjoining TrehgamKralporaChotiporaKulangam and Handwara town early on Tuesday In Srinagarcurfew has been imposed in areas falling under the jurisdiction of police stations Parimpora on Srinagar-Baramulla National HighwayRainawariKhanyarNowhattaMaharaj Gung and Safakadal – covering most of the interior citya police spokesman said He said the law and order situation across the Valley was normal and under control “There has been no report of any untoward incident from anywhere so far” the spokesman added He said the preceding night also passed off peacefully While shops and business establishments in the main markets remained closedprivate transport was seen plying on almost all the routes in the city and elsewhere Most of the educational institutions including private and government-run schools also remained openofficial sources said Geelaniwho is spearheading the ongoing agitation in the Valleyhad asked people to observe a strike and march to Kupwara district Kashmir Valley has been in grip of violent protests since June 11 when a 17-year-old boy was killed after he was hit by a tear smoke shell during clashes at Rajouri Kadal in the interior city So far105 persons have been killed in the unrest in the Valley For all the latest India News download Indian Express App More Related NewsWritten by Anushree Majumdar | Published: May 14 2017 12:00 am (Source: Prajeesh AD) Related News When vappa returns to his hometown by the sea it is forever The cancer has defeated him almost as brutally as life did As a writer Vappa’s talent is under-appreciated which only adds to his scorn of other people but he worries about the size of his obituary in the local paper Perhaps his teenage son will become a writer Anees Salim’s fifth novel The Small-town Sea is a haunting portrait of a family caught in death’s long shadow all the while going about the humdrum routines that nudge life from one day to the next With vignettes from his own childhood years in Kerala’s Varkala the novel is something of a homecoming for Salim Excerpts from an email interview: In our previous conversation two years ago you said you’d already started working on this book How did the story come about The same story and its thread came to me in a nightmare some two-and-a-half years ago when I was trying to write another book It was an extremely detailed nightmare — the only character in it was my son and he was stranded in my hometown because of my death I saw him watching the sunset from the cliff that overlooked the sea From that point in the nightmare I worked backwards to write this book So much of your work is autobiographical and located in the past Family home childhood these seem to be the essential themes that run through all your novels What draws you to them I mostly shape characters out of people I have grown up with and I create backdrops from places I have been to In that sense most of my work is autobiographical I had a quiet childhood and probably that made me look closely at familial complexities and anecdotal situations within the family But when I started writing I tried to write about distant people and their incredible adventures I wrote almost half a novel about a group of friends trying to scale the Himalayas and was very confident of its completion — and even of its resounding success — until an avalanche of despair swallowed me When I started to write about my home and my childhood I found writing much easier and enjoyable But my first novel The Vicks Mango Tree (2012) is set in a fictitious place called Mangobagh and it is about a period I have no clear memory of Your last novel The Blind Lady’s Descendants (2014) dealt with death as well What is it about the decay of the body of a house of relationships that becomes such a defining part of these two books if not a lot of your work Yes death is a recurring theme in almost all my books Every time I attend a funeral I try to imagine how fruitful or futile was the deceased’s life I believe when a person dies a story is born; the story of his world with him Having said that I use death only when the story demands it Since I write mostly about many generations death is a natural thing to happen in my stories Some of your novels have a wonderful mix of the rural and the urban This one talks about the divide between modern city life and a place caught in a different time I think I owe it to my journeys After leaving my hometown I travelled across the country without maps and money and lived in many places sometimes for a few months sometimes a few days When I sit down to write I like to glue in various places to make a city or town For instance the railway tunnel in The Blind Lady’s Descendants doesn’t exist in my hometown but somewhere in north India One enjoyable thing about writing is you can do a town planner’s job the way you like The Small-town Sea is also a legacy project — the narrator writes to a literary agent in the UK to fulfill his father’s prophecy You’ve said that you’re Vappa and the narrator is your son Your father also wrote didn’t he In many ways this is the story of the two of us I have a daughter who is turning three next month But while writing this book I never wondered how her life would be impacted if the storyline turned real I was only concerned about how my 17-year-old son would be affected by my death Yes my father cherished the dream of becoming a writer but he never predicted unlike the father in The Small-town Sea my writing career To the best of my knowledge his contributions to literature were restricted to some essays and a few translations But I think I owe my literary career to the wonderful library he built with books he had amassed from different corners of the world As a writer what do you think you or one can accomplish by turning so far back in time to childhood specifically I have this almost unnatural obsession with what the rearview mirror offers I don’t really relish the moment when it happens but will look at it wistfully once I can no longer experience it I didn’t enjoy my childhood days in Varkala In fact I hated it so much that I wished my father would think of relocating us to a big city But once I was out of it I started to see its small wonders And every time I pay a visit to Varkala I want to write something more about it The sea is a full-bodied character in this novel When you were growing up in Varkala how did you feel about the sea then And what changed when you returned to it a few years ago I have must lived in Varkala for about 15 years before I found a way out of it I went there when I was six and left the town in my early 20s to explore India In all those years I went to the beach less than 10 times even though it was about five km from where I lived I particularly remember one visit which left me feeling small I was with my father’s friend and his family who paid us a visit from another country I remember sitting on the beach between his children who were roughly my age and spoke in English so fast I didn’t understand a word When I returned to Varkala many years later I fell in love with the beach and the cliff and found the town full of characters and tales A couple of months ago I went for a long walk to the beach from my ancestral home taking the same road I did in my schooldays I found many people from my childhood older by some three decades standing on doorways sitting pensively in armchairs strolling in gardens supervising plucking of coconut trees I was literally walking down memory lane So much of this novel talks about the writer’s life his dreams and frustrations — the lack of recognition grasping for the right words the right point of view Yes in a way The Small-town Sea is also about a writer’s life his fears his sense of insecurity and moments of little joy I copied many of them from my own life — like the hotel room in the city where I wrote many of my manuscripts It was demolished a couple of years ago to make space for a mall; or people proudly claiming that they haven’t heard of my books But the most important of all is my fear of getting an insignificant place on the obituary page How would you describe the last few years of writing publishing five novels and being feted In what ways would you say you have changed as a writer and what has changed in the way you tell stories Each book makes writing tougher for me I have consciously slowed down the pace of writing I have become very choosy about the subjects I pick and I keep discarding manuscripts after a few chapters I am intimidated by expectations — it’s what recognition small or big can do to you Since I got the first award in 2013 (The Hindu Lit Award) I must have discarded a dozen manuscripts after a few chapters One of them was about an imam the second one about my father and expat life and the third one about a gigolo in my hometown making a living out of tourists Do you think you’ll write a novel with a female protagonist again You did it fantastically with Hasina Mansoor in Tales From a Vending Machine (2013) I don’t think I will write from a female point of view anytime soon The response to Tales from a Vending Machine was not really heartening It is sad that many people saw it as just a fast and funny read But a very senior journalist and author recently said he rated the book as one of my best It made me unaccountably happy Given how visual your prose is have you ever been approached by a filmmaker to adapt your novels No filmmaker has ever shown interest in my novels and I was never keen on turning my novels into movies until I wrote this book I would love to see The Small-town Sea as a movie Sometimes I imagine myself watching it in one of the cinemas in my hometown the soundtrack spilling out of the theatre and drifting about You’re very prolific even though you said you’ve slowed down What are you working on now I have started to write another book It has a historical background and it is set in a place miles away from my hometown For all the latest Lifestyle News download Indian Express App More Related NewsWritten by Agencies | New Delhi | Published: August 19 2012 9:19 pm Related News Government is learnt to have ordered blocking of 80 more Internet pages and user-accounts today on social networking sites including FacebookGoogle and Twitter to avoid panic among people of northeastern region living across India All these sites were found hosting inflammatory and hateful contentspreading rumours and inciting violence targeting the people from north-eastgovernment sources said Yesterdaythe government had issued instructions to block 76 Internet siteswhich included web-pages and some websitesand had said that bulk of the rumours that triggered panic among people of North-eastern states in KarnatakaTamil Nadu and Maharashtra were sourced from Pakistan “We have found inflammatory and objectionable contents on some pages of Facebook and Google Some user-accounts at Twitter were also found spreading similar contents All togetheraround 80 such pages and accounts have been ordered to be blocked today” the sources said The rumours about a possible attacks have led to mass exodus of people from northeast from many places including BangaloreChennaiMumbai and Pune Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde today asked his Pakistani counterpart Rehman Malik to crackdown on elements based in that country that were using social media networking sites to whip up communal sentiments and spreading hate in India According to a report prepared by the Home Ministrya Pakistan-based hardline group is suspected to have been involved in doctoring images and spreading them across social 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