Lekhak Ka Jantantra (Hindi Edition)

For Krishna Sobti, the identity of a writer is simply an ordinary citizen becoming a little special. A person standing firmly in the slow, yet deep, and powerful current of society, at their own cost, who also strives to observe life while living it. According to her, the writers job is to identify and refine their inner language, making unknown distances resonate with nearness. The unflinching devotion and silent determination with which she lived this identity of a writer are historic. Her writer didnt just write; he also invented his social, political, and civic responsibilities and established them as a natural extension of his authorial existence. She often refused awards and honors because she felt they were essential to her status as a writer. She patiently waited for decades to produce a complete work, because her own standards for authorship were very high and rigorous. In her younger days as a writer, she withdrew her first and major novel from a prestigious publisher mid-print because she couldnt tolerate the manipulation of her language. She spent nearly three decades of her life single-handedly fighting powerful forces of popularity and political influence to protect her copyright. And today, more than her health, she worries about the fact that, after seventy years of independence, the country is once again at a dangerous juncture. Day and night, she worries about the horrors of Partition in 1947, just as she had to endure it due to discriminatory politics, todays politics might bring back that same fate for todays children! The current governments political and ideological narrow-mindedness fills her with a righteous anger that seems to pervade an entire century. In this book, we have compiled a selection of interviews conducted with her at different times by writers, journalists, and thinkers of different ages and disciplines. Reading these, the reader will experience for themselves how a complete picture of literature, of the writer, and of the citizen is formed.