'My pen ran dry'
Updated On: 25 February, 2009 09:33 AM IST | | Anita Nair
Two years and eight months ago, I started writing a column for MiD DAY. While I have had columns in other publications, this was the first time I was taking on a weekly column that had no specific focus
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Two years and eight months ago, I started writing a column for MiD DAY. While I have had columns in other publications, this was the first time I was taking on a weekly column that had no specific focus.
Columnists who have a certain premise to build their columns around have it a tad more easy than the freewheeling ones. While everything may be grist for a column's mill, the danger lay in writing about what everyone or someone else was writing about. And perhaps with greater authority. A film director slaughtering Slumdog Millionaire would have greater credibility than a writer doing so. For that matter a chef on food, a sports writer on cricket, a political analyst on elections in a world so filled with experts, the freewheeling columnist walks a rather precarious tightrope.
Columnists who have a certain premise to build their columns around have it a tad more easy than the freewheeling ones. While everything may be grist for a column's mill, the danger lay in writing about what everyone or someone else was writing about. And perhaps with greater authority. A film director slaughtering Slumdog Millionaire would have greater credibility than a writer doing so. For that matter a chef on food, a sports writer on cricket, a political analyst on elections in a world so filled with experts, the freewheeling columnist walks a rather precarious tightrope.
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