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Sonnets for the locked-down soul
Updated On: 09 May, 2020 08:43 AM IST | Mumbai | Prachi Sibal
In an interview, author Tabish Khair talks about a new quarantine-inspired book and rewriting Shakespeare. Edited excerpts.

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When and how did the idea of Quarantined Sonnets: Sex, Money and Shakespeare emerge?
I was re-reading Shakespeare's sonnets and rewrote one of them in a contemporary context, just for fun, for a friend. Then, I started rewriting one every day. Initially, the idea was to just do it for myself and share it with a few friends. But I decided to publish it with Kitaab, Singapore, who will donate my royalties and the profits to a charity helping migrant workers in Singapore.
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