‘There is no such thing as an objective fiction writer’ | Eye News, The Indian Express

‘There is no such thing as an objective fiction writer’ | Eye News, The Indian Express

Written by Paromita Chakrabarti |New Delhi |Updated: March 10, 2019 6:00:33 am

‘There is no such thing as an objective fiction writer’

Writer Githa Hariharan, 65, on her new book, and why this is a time for anger, but also of hope.

Tide of change: Githa Hariharan. (Photo Credit: Joseph Mehlin)

So much of your new book, I Have Become the Tide (Simon and Schuster, Rs 499), reminded me of incidents taking place around us that I wondered if you meant these to work as the ‘little history’ that Svetlana Alexievich spoke of in the context of her book Second-Hand Time?