“One day, I told
Kamleshwar something that had been preying on my mind. I took out a letter from
my diary and showed it to him: the letter mentions two engines facing apart,
which is also the ending of the novel Syah aur Safed (Black
and White). I had told Rajendra Yadav Bhai that this is how I
wanted to end my novel. The result was that when Bhai published his Jab
Pret Bolte Hain (When Ghosts Speak) as Saara Aakash (The
Whole Sky), he stole the ideaâ€â
is a photographer who landed in a newsroom and reported and edited newspapers in India for more than three decades. He has studied Tharu traditions and culture, and has authored four books. He is based in Delhi.
