When Bengali poet and novelist Sunil Gangopadhyay was writing his first novel, Atmaprakash (Self Revelation, 1964), he used a narrative technique he had learned from American Beat writer Jack Kerouac. “I don’t have to go looking around for plots,” Gangopadhyay recalls Kerouac telling him, in his autobiography Ardhek Jibon (Half... read full story
"I don't have to go looking around for plots,"