गीतांजलिश्री

Quotes

• “...In the writers’ world there is much fun and frolic, and spite and praise...”
• “...Along with all this, today’s world, dominated by the ruthless grasping market and the questionable politics making inroads everywhere, has surrounded me in ways like never before. I have to confront it more directly and also protect my literary space from its pollution...”
• “... So for me Partition has specific subcontinental implications, but it also spans the larger world...”
• “...The follies of mankind from times immemorial have led to broken homes and illogical political identities, severed selves and truncated stories, dislocated populations and homeless refugees...”
• “... I do not care for writing with a worked out plan of beginning, middle and end. Creativity can be an unexpected journey for the writer also...”
• “...So many things go into the making of a creative work – a linguistic-literary tradition, an entire cultural lineage, history, one’s own experience and that of others distilled through observation, new readings and lessons learnt, hope and despair and playfulness and sadness, all feeding the writers’ imagination in tangible and not-so-tangible ways...”

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