Interview _ C. Y. Gopinath
C. Y. Gopinath has worked as a journalist, a film director, and a community development worker. His books include Travels with the Fish (Harper Collins, 1999) and the novel, Book of Answers . In this email interview, C. Y. Gopinath talks about his writing. When did you start writing? 44 years ago. I was twelve, living in Delhi, and I wrote a James Bond spoof for a national youth magazine called JS . After college, I went to work for JS as a traveling reporter, won a national award at 19 for Best Indian Journalist under 35. I’ve been writing since then, but journalistically. Fiction is a new bend in my road. I never really thought I’d be a novelist, although I’ve toyed with the seed of the idea of my first book for nearly 20 years -- a man who doesn’t want to make the world a better place, just wants to be left alone. Here’s how I got yanked into novel writing, by a young man I’d never met: In 1998, a collection of my travel writing was published in India by Harper Coll...