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Pankaj Mishra with Nihal Arthanayake

The Penguin Podcast

Is It the Responsibility of a Writer to Build a Bridge?

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A lot of my known fiction has also been criticised in those terms, iv been described as anti indian or anti hindu and so on and so forth. And my reaction has been, i suppose i can describe it in one word, ine indifference. It's utterly foolish to assume writers should uphold these narrow nationalistic dogmas whenever they put pen on paper. I feel like art in itself cannot become a bridge between people who are very strongly opposed to each other politically. That was never the purpose of art. If we come to have a more refined understanding of the people that we are opposed to politically, whell, then that's great. But that cannot be the primary purpose of

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