Interviews with Indian Writers (An Old and Rare Book)

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About the Book Studying a creative writer conversationally and in moments much less guarded, one feels facilitated in locating. and appreciating his personal meanings of words and this in turn makes our appraisal of his works poignant. The role of interview with creative writers becomes all the more significant when they quite belong to us but originally write in languages not our own. In this context alone, this book which contains Ranavir Rangra's interviews with thirty five modern Indian writers in fifteen languages would attract our immediate attention.

The interviewer strives to meet each writer on his own ground. None of the interviews in this volume betrays. predispositions, studied preferences or even a passing platitude on his part to convey the impression that he is indulging in a verbal warfare to carry his own point. He sets the conversation so self affectedly that, attuned to his work, the writer opens up on the creative issues. vitally important to him.

The book, perhaps the first of its kind on the Indian literature, presents scenes of cultural crossroads in a vastly diversified society speaking different languages and learning to knit itself into a single whole. While self righteous political programming in national integration may not succeed for want of a suitable state of mind, the pull of a joint creative participation as this one might work beyond expectation.

About the Author An eminent Hindi critic and in-depth interviewer, Ranavir Rangra has authored over a dozen books on the various aspects of literary criticism, especially the disruptive psychic phenomena intriguing the modern fiction; the prominent being Hindi-Upanyasa Mein Charitrachitran kä Vikasa, Srijana ki Manobhumi, Aswada ke Ayama, Bharatiya Upanyasa ki Bhumikā. Besides, he has published three collections of his interviews with contemporary creative writers in six teen Indian languages. Born in 1924, he did his Post-Graduation and Ph.D. from Agra University in the fifties. He is former Director of the Central Hindi Directorate, Ministry of Education & Culture, New Delhi.

Preface It is not only the writer that gets churned from within and without during the creative act. The reader is also perturbed as he involves himself in the act of comprehension. What flows. from the writer through his writing and what the reader already possesses take time and effort to come to a confluence. The reader has, at times, to grapple with the incoming substance with all his might to assimilate it. The process of comprehension does not end when we close the book after reading it, but con tinues at the subconscious level. The stronger the writing, the longer it stays with the reader and grows as he grows. The real culmination of any literary work takes place not in the pages of the book, but in the mind of the reader.

Some works set the reader on unending quests and when he fails to meet them despite his concerted effort, he looks to the writer for a hint to unravel the mystery surrounding it. Whenever he happens to meet the writer, he cannot resist the temptation to get a glimpse into his mind. Even if the elucidation offered by the writer is not found fully dependable and final, it does throw some light on the subtleties and proves help ful as such.

**Contents and Sample Pages**