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On the Sahitya Akademi award for his Urdu collection of stories, <i >Dhuan</i>
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What does this award mean to you?
What do you like more—poetry or prose?
Is writing really more satisfying than cinema?
Do you attribute your readership to cinema?
You are recognised more for your cinema writing. Has that been a handicap?
How do you explain your interest in Urdu?
Is Urdu a dying language.
But it is not as much the spoken language as Hindi.
How do these prejudices end?