interiors or exteriors and that is because our life was outside in the open spaces i learned about trees and plants even as i learned about life in the last 1015 years all that has changed drastically but in my mind that village lives on foreverthe courts had to bring you relief from the relentless persecution by religious and caste groups that sought a ban on your novel mathorubhagan which was against the tyranny of caste with growing intolerance towards creative arts do you foresee this happening ofteni dont think courts can be the answer to this cultural intolerance writers cant write in fear thinking of the consequences of speaking their mind there are compulsions that we have to learn to deal with and i am sure that in coming years we will find writers seeking and finding new ways to express themselveswhat did you do in exilei had this great urge to write poetry in those months and i did that and in the time when we were dealing with all that trouble i never found time to spend with my family or deal with personal affairs the timeout allowed me time for myselfnow when you sit down to write do you find yourself worrying about public response yes i am worried about eliciting adverse reactions to my writings i have actually shelved some writing projects i am not going to avoid them forever but i will wait for the right form to present them are you surprised that casterelated violence appears to be growing despite rising levels of education and awarenessno i am not surprised we have to confront the violence and go beyond it to a point where caste ceases to matter this violence we see is because people are afraid that the caste system will be destroyedthey think violence will stop the annihilation of caste but it will only hasten its death