Gangtok:29th Oct: Anytime I came here( Sikkim),it is always been a paradise’,said Dhruba Hazarika, Author -Novelist at Ridge Park,here today .He participated in the session on ‘A Natural Disposition: A Life In Stories, in conversation with Mamang Fai and Rosy Chamling,at Art & Literature fest today.
Ongoing Three day Sikkim Arts & Literature Festival Season-2, has participation of eminent authors and musicians, at Ridge Park.Katha Awardee,Shillong born Dhruba Hazarika,while sharing his impression of the Festival ,also commenting on the visible change ,said , ‘From 15 -20 years ,the literary festivals that India has seen have undergone different dimensions.From earliet to present times.It includes lifestyle pf students,would be writers in readers and enthusiastic people.It has changed from only Bharatnatyam to whole literature culture.
About Sikkim Arts & Literature fest particularly,when asked he said, ‘ Nothing like Literature Fest,Wow!’
About writets – authors struggling if at all due to Artificial Intelligence ( AI) ,Hazarika said. ‘ Creativity is really something very clear,ir is based on invisible, conscious ,thoughts,emotions! ( It cant be in AI).There is nothing to be too scared of AI,we are still the bosses.Lets see what happens in the long run.’
With a number of novels short stories to his credit,the author of Luck short stories Hazarika stated he started with short stories.Any writer of fiction has some base,- its a memory,an event and all such things.So I turn it into something palatable for readers and myself .Imagination helps a true evwnt to flower into a story.
It is to be mentioned here that ,Dhruba Hazarika’s 1st novel Luck was published in2006,next Sons of Brahma.He wrote more including The shoot ,bowstring winter etc.He served as a columnist also .He writes in English only from Meghalaya.
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