Writing: an aspiration, a search, a sadhana

Mixed Messages 4

Duration 15m 39s

What does it mean...

...to write in a foreign land? ...to be comfortable with contradictions, irresolution? ...to write for oneself, or for the reader? ...to write as a form of deep attention, absorption, meditation, sadhana? ...to evoke unity in writing?

These are the questions that Vijay Seshadri and Amitav Ghosh ponder during the concluding segment of their discussion at SAWCC's Literary Festival, Mixed Messages, which took place in May 2006.