Amitabha Bagchi, who has just won the 2019 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, says poetry brings love and togetherness in our lives and also shows writers the direction in which they must go to produce something worthwhile for the readers.
The Delhi-based author, whose novel "Half the Night is Gone" bagged the USD 25,000 award, is of the opinion that during troubled times poetry gets sucked out of our lives but needs to be brought back.
"Poetry captures the sound of language, it is able to evoke our deepest emotions. It also allows us to connect with our inner selves. For writers, it shows the direction in which we must go to write something worthwhile for the readers," he told PTI here.
He says the future of poetry is always secure in this world. "All other forms may live or die but poetry won't."
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