Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations.
Vijay SeshadriSociety imposes an identity on you because of the way you look. Your struggle as a self has to do with an identity being imposed on you that you know is not your identity.
Vijay SeshadriI would say that when I write prose I'm a more socially responsible person. I'm much more a citizen of the world. But the instability of the poetry, the emotional jaggedness, is also me.
Vijay Seshadri