Question

conduct interview with chemmanam Chacko

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Answer 1

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Poet Chemmanam Chacko leads us into his ‘writing room’ in his house in Padamugal. It has a small writing table in a corner next to the window, a chair, clipboards, pens, a magnifying glass and other writerly things. In another corner is a shelf with neatly stacked notebooks and files. Each time an idea strikes, he jots it down in a notebook for it to be developed later. These idea books have been numbered and stacked. Another set of notebooks has completed poems.

Even his writing table was designed by him—a small one on which he can rest his elbows while writing. He chose the pale green top for the table as it is soothing for the eye. Chacko has been using the table for years now, right from his Thiruvananthapuram days and says he brought it with him when he shifted to Kochi in 2004.