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Ep 322: The Life and Times of Mita Kapur

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Conflicting Use of Criticism in Personal and Professional Spaces

In both cases, you're looking out for yourself. As a writer, you just want yourself to be as good as you possibly can be. And in your personal life, I guess you're just drawing a line with what you will do and what you want to perhaps. That mention of banana, Yoshimoto and Japanese literature in general sort of brings me to my next question. Like one thing I've often felt is that languages have inherent qualities which carry over to the literature in those languages. For example, Japanese tends to be spare and minimal. Whereas there are other languages which are much more expressionistic like Urdu or Bengali. If the writing convinces you, then go with it

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