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In what way does a screenwriter contribute to society? PREMIUM Sudip Sharma (Courtesy the subject) I think everyone contributes to society in their own way. Even a person who drives a bus contributes to society. So, in that sense, there is a role that a screenwriter plays in society. It is also commensurate with the kind of role that art plays in society. At the end of the day, a screenwriter is a storyteller. And stories are what shape cultural narratives. Even the Ramayana and the Mahabharata are stories and…

There is an iconic moment in Cervantes’ Don Quixote when the aristocrat Quixote, drunk on the romance of a feudal, medieval past long gone, goes charging at a set of windmills, calling them demons in disguise. His humble, down-to-earth squire Sancho Panza insists that they are not demons but just ordinary windmills. Unconvinced, Quixote launches his attacks, only to fall flat on his face before the wooden structures. This moment is often hailed as that of the birth of the novel in the West – a genre of banal, capitalist…