If I go where do I go

Duttas new feature finds Hindi experimental writer Krishna Baldev Vaid 19272020who was born in what is now Pakistan and migrated to India during Partitionliving with his daughter in a small apartment in New York At ninetyone after a lifetime of his love affair with language he feels at a loss for words His mercurial intelligence scales his lifes journey mostly in silence He reads out his own work anxious to access the dance of language for expressing which he had paid dearly He takes brief walks into the city the sounds are not those of his literature He has visitors enacting an avantgarde play He watches silent his mind in a place deeper inside him even as his senses are alert looking outwards