| 1. Vikram Seth enjoys non-vegetarian food and alcohol. |
| 2. His father, Prem Nath Seth, held an executive position at Bata Shoes, while his mother, Leila Seth, was the first female judge of the Delhi High Court. |
| 3. As a child, Vikram Seth was introverted and preferred reading books over sports and group activities. |
| 4. He is proficient in several languages, including Mandarin, German, French, Urdu, Bengali, and Welsh. |
| 5. Vikram has expertise in calligraphy in Chinese and Arabic, being able to write in various paints and scripts. |
| 6. He left his Economics Ph.D. program at Stanford University to pursue a writing career. |
| 7. Some of Vikram's notable works are 'A Suitable Boy,' 'The Golden Gate,' and 'An Equal Music.' |
| 8. Throughout his career, he has received numerous awards and honors for his literary endeavors. |
| 9. Vikram Seth is recognized for his firm stance against discrimination based on food, religion, or love. |
| 10. While he has not publicly disclosed his marital status, Vikram has been in a relationship with Gabrielle and Philippe Honoré, a French violinist. |
| 11. The Golden Gate is composed entirely of 690 rhyming iambic tetrameter sonnets and is based on Aleksandr Pushkin's Eugene Onegin. |
| 12. A Suitable Boy is one of the longest English-language novels published as a single-volume work, at 1,349 pages. |
| 13. From Heaven Lake recounts his hitchhiking journey from China through Tibet to India undertaken between 1980 and 1982 while conducting doctoral fieldwork. |
