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| Full transcript Your Call with Aatish Taseer
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| INDIA
, 25-September-2011
13:50:57 PM |
| Son of well-known Indian journalist Tavleen Singh and Salman Taseer, former Governor of Punjab in Pakistan, who was assassinated earlier this year in January, Aatish Taseer is a young writer who has already written his third book. Speaking on NDTV's Your Call, Aatish Taseer answers questions about writing, his father and his thoughts on the Anna Hazare movement.
Here's the full transcript of the interview
NDTV: For a young writer to receive praises from VS Naipaul, to have been short listed for the Costa Award for your last book is a heavy and a daunting feeling I am sure, what has it been like for you?
Aatish: Its' been very quiet, I have been working away and I am glad. I hope the books are making their way but it hasn't sort of, I don't feel that its been too heady.
NDTV: Tell us about your latest novel Noon. How much of the voice of the fictional narrator seems to have a lot in common with you. Is it the circumstances, is it because you are writing about India and Pakistan and some of the commonalities? Of course the young boy who grows up with his mother in Delhi, a father who has abandoned them, do you think about it when you write or you think other people read commonalities into this?
Aatish: The creation of a kind of character that helps you access your material. You need it sometime when the material is near to you. You need to create that kind of a character. But once you have created him, then he passes to some kind of a fictional sphere. The material changes once it gets into a fictional world.
David Davidar: You're a journalist by profession. Which form, fiction or non-fiction, do you enjoy more, which do you find is more rewarding?
NDTV: Do you see yourself as a journalist by profession? You started with Time Magazine?
Aatish: I was a bad journalist. My mother's a journalist,
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