Storizen Magazine August 2018 Issue | Chiranjiv Patel VI | Page 56

STORIZEN   INTERVIEW
AUTHOR
INTERVIEWS
Do you think
Indian writing by
women has come
of age?
Indian writing has
always had some
phenomenal
women writers,
right from
AkkaMahadevi to
Kamala
Markandeya to
Kamala Suraiyya to
Pratibha Ray to
writers like the
inimitable Arundhati
Roy, Anita Desai
and
ShashiDeshpande,
to name a few. I
have always felt
that women writers,
in any culture or
community, bring a
jagged edge of
truth to their story
telling that comes
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from their retreating from the
have cut them far
deeper due to their
gender and the
biases they have
lived and fought
through. drain me greatly. I
believe in doing
what I love and
loving what I do and
living just for the
moment. All else
sorts itself out.
Anuradha Prasad with her book
experiences that
world, which can
'Coming Back Home'
You have a wide
range of
interests. How
do you balance
them all?
I merely follow my
heart and do
whatever I love
doing. I cannot do
anything in half
measures, so it is
best that I immerse
myself only in
things that charge
me and make me
feel happy and
joyous. I lose
myself in whatever I
do and I enjoy
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Do you have a routine
when you write?
I have absolutely no
routine. There are
days when I write
for eighteen hours
and then days when
I don’t write at all. I
cannot write to a
timetable. But I am
extremely
disciplined about
deadlines and
deliverables and
rarely falter on
them.
AUGUST 2018