Kannada writer Vivek Shanbhag has said that writers should have political affiliations but their political philosophy should not influence their works.
He was inaugurating the first Kannur Literary Fest organised by the Kannur Jawaharlal Nehru Public Library and Research Centre here on Monday. Mr. Shanbhag said that writing gets empowered when it is done with a sense of freedom. Political consciousness must be understood in a broad sense. “Writers must be able to transcend narrow political thinking,” he said.
