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| Saturday, 5 October 2002 |
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Responsibility of a writer in our times Address by Prof. U. R. Ananthamurthy, writer and scholar from India at the State Literary Festival, 2002. I am not happy with the word 'responsibility'. It sounds a little
pompous, and burdensome like filling income-tax forms. If reading/writing
of creative literature is not a joyful act in itself it is nothing of much
consequence. Bad literature can't be good politics. This is a truism that
state promoters of literature, like the former rulers of Soviet Union,
often target, or deliberately ignore. Other Stories
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