![]() “By then I had already put in 21 years of whodunits. He would meet them on Sunday, the only time he got the day off from his government job. Encouraged by it, Pathak wrote his first full-length mystery novel Purane Gunah Naye Gunahgaar in 1963 after which he says the ball was set rolling.īut unlike even mediocre English authors who find fame at their footstep by the second or third novel, it wasn’t until his 146th book Khoon ke Aansu that he had publishers lining up outside his door. It drove him to write his first mystery story - 57 Saal Purana Admi - which had an element of the supernatural, for Manohar Kahaniyan, a monthly magazine published from Allahabad, then the most famous one of this genre. ![]() But readers would rarely notice there was a short story at the end of the book, which frustrated him. The crime fiction writer, who attended the Pune International Literary Festival last weekend, began his writing career with ‘fillers’ for authors who could not make the quorum of the pages decided by the publisher.
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