Feroz Rather
Hussain does not snicker like heady people from his city of Srinagar who secretly loathe people from Anantnag and elsewhere. He does not ridicule and denigrate them. He does not think of them as fucking rustics who call kangir kangid, and as fucking idiots who call zulr zarul.
Read MoreI think I am writing towards my own people. They are my primary audience. There is a certain satisfaction in that. I also traveled a lot like this driver. Though not in lorries but rickety, run-down buses.
Read MoreI often do feel like the mark of a quality story in the West is often an interesting use of form, genre, or structural integrity, whereas South Asian literature is regarded primarily on emotional reaction. You don't often hear South Asian fiction being discussed with concepts like three-act structure or the New Yorker-style short story? There are probably several half-baked theories I could make about why this is culturally so—why we're less concerned with the various planes of reality that can exist in a fiction (or at least, using them as an opportunity for invention).
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