Interview: Sumit Saxena – “With the advent of AI, every artist will have to lear
Did you always want to be a writer?I was born and raised in Lucknow. My family wasn’t into literature as such except that my grandfather was interested in Urdu poetry. My school group was interested in fiction. We would read books and discuss them at length. I did start writing pretty early. I wrote my first play in the sixth standard. There was a story called Waseehat; one day, my friend and I sat on the last bench and wrote an English adaptation of it. I kept writing in school, but it was only when I went to college,…