LIFESTYLE
In an interview with DNA, Pritish Nandy says he would never pen an autobiography.
We heard that you are going to start experimenting with a form called ‘Twitter Poetry’?
It was a casual comment made in response to a query about how social networks can help towards the resuscitation of poetry as a major art and literary form. I believe they can play a very important role. Both poetry and social networking is about finding ways and means to talk to people, transcending the ordinariness of the prose we use in our daily conversations. It is a challenge, a challenge any poet will happily pick up.
You have returned to poetry after a long time...
This book was written in barely 15 to 20 days, in one shot. So there was no change in my attitude towards anything during the course of this book. But yes, my poems have certainly changed over the years and that is only inevitable. People change. Their ideas change. Their worldview changes. Their passions change as well. And poetry ultimately is all about passion.
Shashi Tharoor says that his statements have been misrepresented?
I think you got entirely wrong the nuances of what Shashi Tharoor was saying. When asked whether he or I was the greater romantic, Shashi only said, “I am in no position to comment on anyone else’s romanticism, but I’m incurable.” The second quote attributed to him is not correct. There was a follow-up question which he, in fact, refused to answer and diverted it by commenting on my poetry and saying that it was much more than just romantic and contained many other issues as well. That is true. Like every poet, I write on many themes that i feel strongly about. You cannot only categorise me as a romantic poet. In fact, my most popular poems are political poems of anger and protest. I guess you got the nuances wrong. In a hugely crowded and noisy event, like the launch of the book, it is possible that people can get things wrong. Its no big deal. But I know exactly what Shashi said at the event because I was sitting next to him on the stage.
Will you be directing a film anytime?
I never say no to anything. But the truth is: my hands are currently full of too many things. I have three unfinished novels, a new translation of the Gita, a couple of books of poems, one being a re-issue of my poems with Kamala Das, an exhibition of my paintings, and four films to release and three to make. The world looks tougher and riskier today than it did three or four years ago. The recession has changed our attitude towards many things.
What about writing a fiction someday or an autobiography?
I have three unfinished novels and I will certainly finish them one day. As for my autobiography, why dont you suggest harakiri instead? No, let my life be full of unanswered questions. That’s what makes me who I am. Why change that now? The romance of living is actually the romance of mystery. Its best not to reveal anything at all. Just live your life the way it is.
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