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Sujatha Gidla: preference

15 Nov 2017 Conversations with Tyler Sujatha Gidla on Being an Ant Amongst the Elephants (Live)

“I like writing nonfiction but only the kind of issues that I have, which involves enthusiastic storytellers like my family and centered around an issue—for example, the farmers’ suicide in India.”

— Sujatha Gidla

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Sujatha Gidla
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preference
Recorded
15 Nov 2017
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Conversations with Tyler

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…For the future, is there anything you could tell us about what you’re thinking or what you’re planning in terms of further writing or expressing your ideas more? People with my kind of views, they don’t get published in New York Times and things like that. That’s out for me. I don’t like writing fiction. I like writing nonfiction but only the kind of issues that I have, which involves enthusiastic storytellers like my family and centered around an issue—for example, the farmers’ suicide in India. If we get some storytellers like that who are involved with that issue, then I’d like to write. Otherwise, I don’t see any point to write. Do you think there’ll ever be a time where you write about life in the United States?…

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