Ask the Author: Ashutosh Gupta
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Ashutosh Gupta
Words of Franz Kafka break my writer's block every single time. With the sheer palpability of his work, Franz Kafka has influenced me like no other. The impulses of Kafka have been occasionally morose and occasionally radiant. More than his short stories, it has been his poignant letters to his father and his lover Milena, and those desperate and courageous expressions in his diary, that have lit up my vulnerability and somehow my fantasy too. Because of his blatant display of fallibility and defencelessness, his expressions have always appeared to be truthful and almost tangible. He has given me a framework which I believe my writing terribly needed, and I have continued to build on that.
Ashutosh Gupta
I believe we all are a work of art and if it is not within our powers to exude this attribute through our actions then we must at least strive to create a work of Art. Writing sustains the hope of universe to realize the magical chemistry of intellect, imagination, and emotions, with no favoritism for one in particular. I feel that timeless writing must make way for the sustenance of a gentle arrogance, a bit of it to interrupt the converging lines of established knowledge, and much more of it to give birth to a burning star. As far as I am concerned, both my dynamism and stagnancy rest in writing and so is the freedom and patience that come respectively with these states
Ashutosh Gupta
All this while, I have lived with a cosmically sprinting headspace and within this realm, I have experienced nothing but limitlessness. My reflections of today are endlessly measuring one path after another and my reflections of tomorrow will be no different. I know the penetration into my vulnerability will have no end, I know my desire for righteousness will make me unearth one virtue after another, and I know abstractness will continue to seize my wonder at her own will, forever. Within these daunting and enthralling passages of time, I have found the marrow of my life. ‘Equations of a Being: A being who gathered moss’ is a captured fragment of my endlessness. Some of you may find one of your lost fragments in this fragment of mine and some of you may wholeheartedly welcome it into your own endlessness. Both ways, it will be a sweet triumph for you and me.
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