Bhisham Sahni: While writing there are certain experiences which come out immediately, which strike you even though while you were living through those experiences they may not have struck you as very significant or very important. But somehow, later on, while you are writing they hit the eye -- they sort of come back to your mind. And you use them in your writing. But if while writing one puts down the pen and sits down and tries to recollect and tries to remember, many other details crop up. So you have to somehow dig them up with the help of memory. But while writing you don't do it. You are preoccupied with what you want to say and you are using your experiences, so, many things are left out: many things, which might have been significant though of a minor nature. But, because after writing the novel I do remember some things I used to recollect which had relevance, which had significance. Which later on I thought I might have used, but then ...