“Shall I tell you something honestly? If I go, there won’t be any crime fiction in Hindi any more. “It’s a God-given gift to be able to write the way people conduct conversations," Pathak tells me, leaning forward across the small round table. His usual humility takes a back seat when he points out how he was responsible for still keeping “Urdu-wali Hindi" acceptable. And it’s the overflow that makes me write to this day," he adds. “There were popular detective stories by writers like Om Prakash Sharma, Ibn-e-Safi and Ved Prakash Kamboj that I devoured as a youngster. So I read everything I could get my hands on," he says. When I first came here to Delhi from Lahore as an eight-year-old after Partition, there was no television and films were heavily censored as they were right through the 1970s and 1980s. “But this (meeting readers and talking about a new novel) is nice." ![]() “I’m having all kinds of health issues," Pathak tells me apologetically while adjusting his hearing-aid kit tucked inside his jacket pocket when I meet him later in a quiet room, the size of a large cupboard.
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