In episode 9 of India Booked, Ayushi Mona and bestselling author Vikram Chandra discuss his non fiction debut, Mirrored Mind: My Life in Letters and Code.
The podcast expounds on the connections between the worlds of art and technology. Is elegance the domain only of writers and artists? What about Coders also obsessed with the same but how can we ascribe beauty to the craft of writing code?
Listen to this podcast to explore varied topics discussed in the book such as logic gates and literary modernism, the machismo of tech geeks, the omnipresence of an “Indian Mafia” in Silicon Valley, and the writings of the eleventh-century Kashmiri thinker Abhinavagupta.
This episode much like the book is engrossing, original, and heady book of sweeping ideas.
The India Booked podcast uses literature as a lever to bring multiple facets of the country alive. It's perfect for not just bibliophiles and trivia junkies but also people interested in learning more about India. Each episode focuses on a different theme, ranging from business and food, to history and politics, geography and spirituality. It unfolds as a 40-45 minute conversation between the host and a celebrated author to talk about everything India.
Vikram Chandra is the author of Red Earth and Pouring Rain, which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book and the David Higham Prize for Fiction; a collection of short stories, Love and Longing in Bombay which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book (Eurasia region); Sacred Games which won the Hutch Crossword Award for English Fiction for 2006 and a Salon Book Award for 2007 and was chosen by Netflix to be their first original series from India; and a non-fiction book Mirrored Mind: My Life in Letters and Code. His work has been translated into twenty languages. He has co-written Mission Kashmir, an Indian feature film that was released internationally in late October, 2000.
Vikram Chandra is the co-founder and CEO of Granthika Co., a software startup that is re-inventing writing and reading for the digital age. He currently divides his time between Mumbai and Berkeley, California, where he teaches creative writing at the University of California. He lives with his wife Melanie Abrams, who is also a novelist.
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