"What I have tried is to trace out the violence, that is there in humans' inner lives, what people usually neglect. Books are not written with any single point of view, it is a responsibility of an author that he/she tries to see and understand the multiplicities. When you realize that life is full of complexities, you will understand that there is nothing like straightforward in writing a book.
It is the human beings and their lives that intrigues me, these are the real material for the novelists. Unless you are curious about people, you will not become a good writer."
This talk was organized on 11-10-23 by the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia University, Delhi.
Anjum Hasan is an Indian novelist, short story writer, poet, and editor. Her latest novel is History's Angel. She is the author of The Cosmopolitans, Neti, Lunatic in my Head, Difficult Pleasures, and a book of poems, Street on the Hill. She has been a Homi Bhabha Fellow, a Charles Wallace Writer-in-Residence and is currently a New India Foundation Fellow.
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