Author Interview : Krishanu Banerjee

Author Interview : Krishanu Banerjee

Hello everyone,
Today I am going to introduce you to the author of 'Offsprings'.

Let's start!

1)Can you tell me a little bit about yourself?

Ans- I am a school teacher by profession. I make my daily bread by teaching little children. They are my friends who bring a gust of cold wind in my summer life. Apart from this nowadays I spend a lot of time by engaging my brain in the work of poetry writing. In a brief I am a very common man by appearance but unique in nature. Unique in the sense that whatever others like to do, like to believe, like to love I simply go to the opposite direction. I love to love and I hate to hate. In a nutshell I am a peculiar fellow.

2) When did you start writing and what do you think attracted you to poetry?  

Ans- When I was a student I was very poor in my writing skill. Up to class 9 I have never managed to secure respectable marks in English writing skill but in spite of this I always tried to write myself with broken vocabulary, poor grammar. Then When I admitted to class XI I tried to write short essays both in my mother tongue and English language. Thus my writing was progressing but truly speaking I have never thought of being a poet. It was 18months ago when I had wrote my first ever poem irrespective of English and Bengali language. The poem was in English.

   Poetry is the best genre of literature. It is like a fairy lady who attracts them who are the true disciples of beauty and literature. Nowadays none likes to read poetry. I want to make them read poetry again by providing poems written in simple and rhyming language. To me poetry is the best medium through which I can express myself. Hence I’m attracted to poetry.

3) When did you think you were a poet?  

Ans- When I was able to compose my poetry in proper rhyme scheme and when my poems were critically appreciated and criticised by all.

4) What poets did you enjoy reading as a child?  

Ans- As a child I haven’t read poetry but at teenage I had read a lot. I am a student of Bengali medium school. So I have not read the English poems so much. But I have read a lot of Bengali poems from the greats. Rabindranath Tagore is my most favourite poet. I enjoyed and enjoy a lot reading his poems. Apart from him Kazi Najrul Islam and Sukanta Bhattacharya are the two poets whose poetry I really enjoyed and still enjoy. As I have told earlier I had little scope to read English poetry in my teenage but in that little scope I enjoyed reading poetry of William Wordsworth. He is the poet who attracted me to English literature.

5) What motivated you to go on to focus on a career in writing?

Ans- I don’t want to go on to focus on my writing career. I like to write. That’s why I write. I am motivated only by myself.

6) Tell me something about your book 'Offsprings'.

Ans- The book 'Offsprings' is an English poetry book which consists of 70 different poems covering the themes of society, love, nature, death, grief, art etc. Each and every poem, excluding three poems, is rhythmic and different from each other. All poems (excluding one) are short in length which will make the readers enjoyable and doesn't let them feel bore. I have chosen easy language to convert my emotions in poetic forms so that each person of the society can read and recite and enjoy this book. I have named it 'Offsprings' because each poem to me is like my own child, own offspring. Hence my effort and care to let them appear on the lap of literature is perhaps quite admirable. As this is a poetry book you cannot find typical characters in it but if you read it carefully then you can easily identify metaphorical characters in it like Nature, Love, Death, A flower, the setting sun etc. If you want to find a protagonist and antagonist in these poems, you will find that too but metaphorically. You will read a poem where protagonist is a tree and antagonist is human beings. You will read another poem where the protagonist is the human beings and antagonist is the society. You can find a poem where life is the protagonist and lovelessness is its antagonist. So if it is read, one can easily make out that it is quite charming to read. Sometimes poetry creates difficulties to understand and realize but with this book experience will be different.

6) What do you like to do when you are not writing?

Ans- Ahh! Reading poetry, thinking of my upcoming poem or watching Hollywood films.

7) What's the best experience you've gained through your writing?

Ans- What should I say? Well, My writing career is a baby till now. So I have not gained any remarkable experience.

8) How did you get started as a poet? How do your poems develop? Please guide us through the stages of a poem.

Ans- I only write when I am too much happy or sad. My feelings of ecstasy or sadness form some beautiful words and then they make a garland of poetry with the thread of rhymes. I like rhymes. Without rhymes I don’t feel poetry as‘poetry’.

9) Tell us about your process: pen and paper, computer, notebooks...how do you write?  

Ans- I always write on my Mobile phone. I use your quote app as my writing desk and diary. It will be incomplete if I don’t mention your quote app. Practically this app has created my poetic self. I am very very very grateful to it.

10) What do you see as the role of poet in modern day society? Any message for your readers?

Ans- Difficult to answer but as we all know that literature reflects society, it is our moral duty to present the situation of modern day society to all and sundry. As pen is mightier than sword, hence our writings should reflect any injustice as well as appreciate any noble cause. I believe a poet is beyond any religious or political self. His or her identity is that he or she is a poet, only a poet who should worship only the truth. Hence when we shall know our proper role in the society, then a true society will be created.

   I am too young to give any kind of messages to my readers. I can only request them to read my works heartily and criticise them as much as possible.

Thanks for reading