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Q: Could you tell us
about yourself and the poet in you. To what category of poets do you belong?
Dr.MSN: I am what you would call a contemporary poet who has a passion for
poetry more as a hobby. I am an engineer by profession. I live with my wife
and three children in Washington D.C
Gorur Award Winner Dr. M S Nataraj (Right)
Q: When did you begin writing poetry?
Dr.MSN: I began in the middle school very casually, trying to write on the
same lines of great poets. It used to be a hobby. I began writing serious
poetry when I moved to the U.S.
Q: What prompted you all
of a sudden?
Dr.MSN: Probably the separation
from my homeland and my people prompted me to do so.
Q: Which famous Kannada
poets have inspired you?
Dr.MSN: Though I have read the works of many poets, I really admire the
inimitable style of D.R. Bendre.
Q: What prompted you to
write the powerful poems on very recent happenings?
Dr.MSN: The thought of the meaningless act of destroying an engineering
marvel in a matter of minutes because of hatred bothered me a lot that led
to the emotional release and I wrote Ayyo
kusiyithe sirikendra
The picture of a young
beautiful girl on a suicide mission on the TV haunted me so much that I
needed to come to terms with it. This prompted me to write Sidiyuva hudugi
Q: Is the poem Baththida
Nadhigalu about dry rivers in India or about something else?
Dr.MSN: Well, I happened to be in a conference. I was looking at a
disinterested person who sat there yawning and not participating in any of
the proceedings. I sat wondering what must have happened to him. This led to
my comparison of him to a dried up river.
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Indrani Parthasarathy
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