{"id":86179,"date":"2019-11-28T02:23:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T20:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=86179"},"modified":"2019-11-28T02:23:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T20:53:31","slug":"reading-is-a-communal-act-jerry-pinto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/11\/28\/reading-is-a-communal-act-jerry-pinto\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading is a communal act: Jerry Pinto"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Arunachal Literature Festival starts<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Nov 27:<\/strong> &#8216;Reading is a communal act, we do it together; I write for you, you read it for me,&#8217; said Mumbai based writer Jerry Pinto while sharing his opinion on the topic, &#8216;A writer&#8217;s Responsibility&#8221; during the afternoon session of the Arunachal Literature Festival which began here on Wednesday.<br \/>\nPinto said that the readers have equal responsibility while reading so as the writers when they write.<br \/>\n&#8216;The writers constantly have to negotiate the responsibility and the responsibility is so heavily burdened on all of us&#8217;, Pinto opined.<br \/>\nIndonesian writer Leila Chudor, who was also a panelist in this session, said, &#8220;We cannot dictate the readers, if they want to translate or interpret, I have no say on them&#8221;<br \/>\nGiving his opinion on writers&#8217; responsibility, Sri Lankan writer Ashok Ferrey said, &#8221; Years ago you could write what you want to write, can get away after writings, but more and more writing are being hijacked by the activism and polemic in a way architectures are being hijacked by engineers, more science than arts.&#8221; The session was chaired by chaired by Bangalore based Author Anuja Chauha.<br \/>\nThe second afternoon session was with Ramsharan Joshi and Balendu Dwivedi on the topic, &#8220;Nationalism in Present Scenario&#8221; which was chaired by Samudra Gupta Kashyap, former journalist with the Indian Express. In conversation session, author Dhruba Hazarika was in conversation with Ashok Ferrey on his works and writings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arunachal Literature Festival starts Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Nov 27: &#8216;Reading is a communal act, we do it together; I write for you, you read it for me,&#8217; said Mumbai based writer Jerry Pinto while sharing his opinion on the topic, &#8216;A writer&#8217;s Responsibility&#8221; during the afternoon session of the Arunachal Literature Festival which began here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}