 Hindustan Times | 'I'm too clever by half' Hindustan Times Indians may not be too familiar with the plays of Tom Stoppard, but the prolific British playwright is no stranger to India. ?Like Vikram Seth, we were Bata people. My father was a doctor with the Bata shoe company at Zlin, Czechoslovakia,? he says at ... 'I did not initially want to do Shakespeare in Love' I get only one idea at a time: Playwright Tom Stoppard Stoppard finds abstract ideas more attractive than characters |