Written by Surbhi Gupta |Updated: December 21, 2018 1:37:32 pm
All art is consumerist in some way: Writer-poet Nikita Gill
Nikita Gill on reimagining fairy tales, why Instagram poetry is popular and the criticism it receives
What if Rapunzel used her braid to climb down the tower herself? What if Little Red Riding Hood became ruler of the wolves, instead of being eaten by one? What if Snow White and Sleeping Beauty woke up on their own, without the princes kissing them? What if Captain Hook wasn’t evil but just heartbroken? These are questions that UK-based writer-poet Nikita Gill asks in her latest book Fierce Fairytales: Poems & Stories to Stir Your Soul (Hachette, Rs 399) — a collection of poems and flash fiction.
What was it that made you reimagine fairy tales as poems, prose and letters?
I have a deep love for fantasy, but I recognised that most magical tales relied on magic from the outside, a chance meeting with a magic stranger, for instance. The point of these fairy tales is to rely on the magic inside you, that everyone is already born with strength and hope.
I have a deep love for fantasy, but I recognised that most magical tales relied on magic from the outside, a chance meeting with a magic stranger, for instance. The point of these fairy tales is to rely on the magic inside you, that everyone is already born with strength and hope.
Why do you blur the lines between heroes and villains in the stories?
Human beings are not just their best nor are they their worst. Nor is anyone born evil. All of that is learned behaviour, and comes from somewhere, from trauma, abuse, or something harmful. I approached these stories by giving villains a more nuanced perspective, to make people think a little deeper than ‘good and bad’.
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