18 authors on being 18: The Outlook

Outlook magazine asked 18 top authors to write about being 18, a curious phase in life. ‘Their thoughts are here—from Ruskin Bond, 79, in Mussoorie who does not have a cellphone or an e-mail address, who speed-posted his handwritten notes and it reached us the day he said it would, to Fatima Bhutto, 31, who promptly replied to the mail reque­sting her to write in half an hour when she was travelling in Johannesburg and sent an enchanting little piece about growing up in Damascus, to Pico Iyer who quickly sent in his piece as he said he was going to be cut off from the world soon.’

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WRITE TURN Pico Iyer PICO IYER

WRITE TURN Chetan Bhagat CHETAN BHAGAT

WRITE TURN Amit Chaudhuri AMIT CHAUDHURI

WRITE TURN Ian Jack IAN JACK

WRITE TURN Amish Tripathi AMISH TRIPATHI

WRITE TURN Jerry Pinto JERRY PINTO

WRITE TURN Fatima Bhutto FATIMA BHUTTO

WRITE TURN Ruskin Bond RUSKIN BOND

WRITE TURN Naresh Fernandes NARESH FERNANDES

WRITE TURN Mark Tully MARK TULLY

WRITE TURN Manu Joseph MANU JOSEPH

WRITE TURN Rana Mitter RANA MITTER

WRITE TURN Anita Nair ANITA NAIR

WRITE TURN Altaf Tyrewala ALTAF TYREWALA

WRITE TURN Ravinder Singh RAVINDER SINGH

WRITE TURN Amitabha Bagchi AMITABHA BAGCHI

WRITE TURN Shovon Chowdhury SHOVON CHOWDHURY

WRITE TURN Mani Shankar Aiyar MANI SHANKAR AIYAR