A noon-meal organiser in a school, Nataraj, after whom the character is based, is also a descendent of Dheeran Chinnamalai, a historical figure from the Kongu region who fought the British. I am not responsible for upholding any ideology.”īharathi’s next, “Nataraj Maharaj” is inspired by the real-life story of a man whom he had met and befriended. I don’t feel I am obliged to write in a certain way. I am not loyal towards a particular way of looking at things. I don’t subscribe to any particular politics. “I go by my personal instinct while writing. It is also about experience, instincts and feelings,” he says. “Fiction is not about intelligence and knowledge alone. It is this reliance on instinct that also guides his mode of writing. “At times, I have waited for two years before proceeding and I keep rewriting the draft,” he says. Unlike his non-fiction writing for magazines and journals, his work on the novel is guided more by instinct. Yet, Bharathi does not feel an urgency to complete his novel. I had the self-belief that I would live to write it,” the writer said. I was very particular about staying alive,” Bharathi said. “Right from the moment I woke up, I have been working on my novel ‘Nataraj Maharaj’ in my mind. He had nightmares in which he felt that he came back after being a strange place. The accident felt to him like a near death experience.
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