One Idea, One World- Satchidanandan Speaks
IN a diversified world with different races, beliefs, customs it is literature that act as a binding force reflecting the same diversity in an aesthetic manner. But for one who believes in a Utopian idea of one idea, one world, contemporary literature seems like a scattered world. If you too bear the same apprehension, a poet, critic and scholar, K Satchidanandan will make you understand how literature justifies its different classifications in a sociological perspective. “Let hundred flowers bloom instead of one. Instead of single idea, let pluralism thrives. New monoliths are breaking and you know it is good for ideal democracy.” The poet was responding to a query on the contemporary literature, with special reference to India, on a chilly afternoon inside the Sahitya Akademi office in New Delhi, India’s official centre for promoting literature. Winter was just touching down the national capital when the poet sat down for an informal chat turned interview. Meeting the