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THE INTERVIEW: MIND MAP

 Interview is a common place in journalism.
 In its highest form a source of truth and in practice an art.

 It is a supremely serviceable medium of communication.
 V.S.Naipaul feel people are wounded by interviews.

 Lewis Carroll never consented to be interviewed.
 Some celebs describe it as thumbprints on windpipe.
 Almost everything of moment reaches us through one man

asking questions of another.
 So the interviewer holds a position of unprecedented power

and influence.

 PART 2 deals with the interview of Umberto Eco being
interviewed by Mukund Padmanavan.

 Umberto is a professor of Semiotics in university of Bologna
 Became famous worldwide in 1980 after hie novel The
Name of The Rose was published.

 Explains that he writes novels only on Sundays
 Make proper usage of Interstices(empty spaces).

 Participates in academic conferences and not meetings of
pen clubs and writers.

 He started writing novels at the age of 50.
 Always narrates the success of his research and incorporates

stories like a Chinese wise man.
 The name of the rose is a serious novel.
 It is a detective yarn at one level but it also delves into

metaphysics, theology and medieval history.
 The huge success of the novel does not have any particular

reason it is a mystery.