... I do not care for writing with a worked out plan of beginning, middle and end. Creativity can be an unexpected journey for the writer also... - Geetanjali Shree

... So for me Partition has specific subcontinental implications, but it also spans the larger world...

...Self-critique is always there, as part of my intuition. It is this that produces, in the event of certain outcomes, that thrill of what you call ‘surprise’. It is also the pitiless slave-driver that keeps tormenting me, saying ‘no, not this, not this.’...

... Writing emotionally-charged scenes – independent of whether they resonate with my own life – may leave me with some sort of an enervating feeling and may also produce a compensatory aesthetic satisfaction, but they can also sap me, filling me with an incredible exhaustion...