Books Are Like People: A Writer’s Reflection Across Culture
I was moved by reading Prakruti Maniar’s writing ‘Books are like People’, An article from the Purple Corner.That awakening of feelings occurred both as a reader and as a writer. What she's written is stunning, poetic, incisive, and deeply resonant. It captures the paradox of storytelling; the intimacy of self-revelation and the inevitable incompleteness of interpretation. I do agree with you Prakruti, profoundly. And here’s why, The Writer’s Vulnerability and the Reader’s Hunger: Writing as Self-Exposure Writers often give more of themselves than they realize. The “culture codes” she describes in those intimate, coded fragments, are the DNA of a writer’s soul. They’re not just literary devices; they’re emotional breadcrumbs. A dish mentioned in passing might be a portal to a childhood memory. A character’s silence might echo the author’s own grief. These details are not arbitrary, they’re confessions in disguise. Here I would like to briefly explain what Prakruti means by cultural ...