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mind, while also being able to look beyond 7) Could you recall any memorable experiences
their formal narratives and self image. from working with the BBC?
I was a researcher on a history series called
4) What are your main muses?
Incarnations. For most part it entailed
No such muses :) I have a very pragmatic
spending a lot of time in libraries, gathering
approach to writing and life generally.
material. That was interesting in its own
5) I’m greatly curious about your Google search way. But I also remember my initial meeting
history. Would it be possible to catch a glimpse at with the producers and how they got me
it? to explain how I might want to present the
I just looked at my web history and it is rather 50 characters covered in the series. I also
underwhelming, haha. There is a book from remember that their offices were in a very
the 1870s I was trying to find, to study an 1817 interesting building, but as I said, I worked
rebellion in Orissa; there are some websites mostly out of libraries and other places
connected to tax matters that I was looking which house the information we needed.
into; and there is a search for an out of print
8) Any future endeavours?
book connected to Cochin, which I must try
I have some academic commitments to
and dig out from the archives in Kerala.
attend to for the next year, after which, I’ll
6) How is it possible that you have more hours a return to book projects.
day than the average human?
9) Could you give us a hint on the subject matter
I don’t :)
of your research at London University and the
But I’ll confess that I have a strict time table
reason you chose it?
and make an effort to stick to that daily.
It isn’t too far away from what I have done
Much of what people define as “success”
in the past--it is history and it is related to
really just comes from hard work, good time
Kerala.
management, and the capacity to stick to
routine. I know it sounds rather unromantic, Jovitta C. S. (Magazine Editor)
but it is true. II BA English Language and Literature

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