In Conversation With Pico Iyer Part-2
By kamla bhatt • May 19th, 2008Category: Books and Authors, Diaspora, Featured, People
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Pico Iyer is a well-known writer and essayist, who has written 9 books and numerous articles and essays in various magazines and publications.
Pico wrote his first book Video Night in Kathmandu about 20 years ago and still features as one of the top must-read books. He is also the author of The Lady and the Monk, Falling Off The Map, Abandon and most recently a book on Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan leader, who has been living in India since 1959.
In part-2 of our conversation Pico talks about growing up in England and California, his writing style, globalism, living in Japan and his favorite author Graham Greene. Pico often writes about globalism, and yet lives in a secluded part of Japan where he does not watch TV or read newspaper and probably the phone rings once a month at his home. Most evenings he plays ping-pong with senior Japanese people. And when he comes to his mother’s home in Santa Barbara he often makes time to stay at a Benedictine monastery. Tune in to find out how Pico is able to keep his pulse on the planet and write those articles and books on globalism.
If you missed Part-1 of the conversation with Pico you might want to listen Pico talk about his new book, the Dalai Lama, and about Communism and Buddhism.
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Kamla Bhatt is the host and producer of an Internet Radio show where listeners can find stories about the new and emerging India and the global Indian community. As a pioneer of 'internet radio' format in India Kamla started her first show News about India, followed by TalkNewsIndia in 2005. In 2006 she premiered her new show: The Kamla Bhatt Show: Life, People and Ideas. 
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