![]() ![]() “It is much easier to get a book published in English. Like most Hindi writers, he does feel the pinch of the luxuries afforded to his English-writer counterparts. ![]() The little patronage that Hindi enjoys is only in the language belt of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Bihar, while English rules the roost from Kashmir to Kanyakumari and from Kutchh to Kamrup,” he says. “Where will a Hindi mystery writer come from if there are no outlets to publish him? And if he does get a story published, he often does it as his own expense. There is also a dearth of publishers for Hindi mystery writing he says. Currently, finding pocket book publisher isn’t easy,” says Pathak. This downwards trend has not stopped even today. Most of the publishers shut shop and writers faded into oblivion. In four decades, from the ’60s to ’90s, there was many publishers in the Hindi-pocket-book trade and many more writers of this genre to cater them. “Every new writer comes with a mystery novel to be published, and it is more so in English. It’s success earned me a loyal readership,” says Pathak.įor someone who has seen crime writing evolve in the country, he says the genre has become immensely popular. Khoon Ke Aansu was the fourth and concluding part of a four-part-novel and it took the trade by storm. “By then I had already put in 21 years of whodunits. He would meet them on Sunday, the only time he got the day off from his government job. Encouraged by it, Pathak wrote his first full-length mystery novel Purane Gunah Naye Gunahgaar in 1963 after which he says the ball was set rolling.īut unlike even mediocre English authors who find fame at their footstep by the second or third novel, it wasn’t until his 146th book Khoon ke Aansu that he had publishers lining up outside his door. It drove him to write his first mystery story - 57 Saal Purana Admi - which had an element of the supernatural, for Manohar Kahaniyan, a monthly magazine published from Allahabad, then the most famous one of this genre. But readers would rarely notice there was a short story at the end of the book, which frustrated him. The crime fiction writer, who attended the Pune International Literary Festival last weekend, began his writing career with ‘fillers’ for authors who could not make the quorum of the pages decided by the publisher. ![]()
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