Listen here: Vasudhendra's Vision of Inclusive Storytelling and Social Change Excerpts from the interview: Q: Reading your fiction in English, there's a leisurely pace but also packed with detail. And you have this wonderful knack of pulling the reader into the story. How do you do that? A: I think the detailing comes with the personality.
If you are less of a talker and more observer and listener, detailing will be very high in your writing. And we need to have a very humble personality. Because only then will you be able to develop empathy with others.
I always felt like becoming a good storyteller is becoming a better person. These two are closely correlated, so my focus is on that. And maybe that has resulted in attracting these readers or making them feel it's their own story.
Q: One of the things I think about when I read your works are that you write of ordinary lives in a way with great deal of humility, respect, generosity of understanding the situation. A: It's like a jigsaw puzzle. If you miss even a single piece, all the neighbouring pieces will find a vacuum.
It's the same way every character is important in this society. Not only human beings, even when I consider animals, I give lot of respect to them and I see how they might be feeling, though I cannot understand their feelings so easily. That's the basic nature of my personality.
So I've tried to give room for the other person and try to understand him, which gets reflected in the stories. And as far as Mohan.
