{"id":94468,"date":"2024-07-03T17:50:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T12:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=94468"},"modified":"2024-07-03T17:50:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T12:20:55","slug":"goa-2075-writing-live-fiction-set-in-reality-can-challenge-journalism-on-its-turf-mayabhushan-nagvenkar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=94468","title":{"rendered":"Goa < 2075: Writing Live Fiction, Set in Reality, can Challenge Journalism on its Turf : Mayabhushan Nagvenkar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Goa Khabar : Exploring Goa\u2019s ever-changing cultural, social landscape via a live, bilingual and futuristic novel which is rooted in contemporary facts, has enabled a breakaway from the futility and lack of purpose of modern-day journalism, stated Goan author and former journalist Mayabhushan Nagvenkar.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nagvenkar offered audiences insights into India\u2019s first live, bilingual novel titled \u2018Goa < 2075\u2019 which also marks his debut in fiction, at the recently held MOG Sundays talk titled, \u2018Imagine Goa, Fifty Years Hence\u2019 at the Museum of Goa (MOG), Pilerne. Nagvenkar was in conversation with eminent filmmaker Qaushiq Mukherjee, known as Q.<\/p>\n

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Dystopian in nature, \u2018Goa < 2075,\u2019 self-published by Nagvenkar on various social media platforms, follows the journey of five friends aiming to avenge their friends slain for protecting the last standing traditional house in Anjuna, while navigating a radically different geographical, political and social landscape of the future, consisting of powerful Overlords and underground-dwelling Subterraneans. Set in Goa in the year 2075, which is ruled by a Corporation instead of an elected government, where only the rich are empowered by law to live on the surface and where the fate of the state\u2019s last surviving tigress is in peril, the novel follows the trope of vigilante justice as a means for social change.<\/p>\n

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Nagvenkar\u2019s representation of the faltering ethics of journalism is embodied through the character of a journalist in the ongoing novel, who is unable to perform the fundamentals of his role due to pressure from the Overlords and ideological conflict.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlacing a version of contemporary Goa in the future gives me the liberty to explore and flesh out my characters and subjects more and stretch the plot of my novel. I think with this format, I get the freedom to explore all sides of an issue or story, which often doesn\u2019t happen in reality,\u201d said Nagvenkar, who made a mid-career switch from journalism to fiction writing.<\/p>\n

Nagvenkar\u2019s pioneering mode of publication was also highlighted by filmmaker Q, aligning with the current deficiency in people\u2019s attention span by utilising the space of social media to release small portions of the story four times a week \u2013 twice in English and the same pieces translated into Marathi to capture a wider audience.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all know about the attention economy at present, which has majorly changed because of the Internet since 2014 onwards, where algorithms now decide your content for you. Our power of choice is being limited, and Nagvenkar\u2019s live novel format attempts to bridge that gap by providing substance in smaller packages,\u201d stated Q.<\/p>\n

Drafting a \u2018live\u2019 novel necessitates finding a rhythm while writing and posting, which Nagvenkar achieves by posting every Wednesday and Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know what will happen in the next instalment, but I haven\u2019t written it yet, and the same goes for the later portions of the novel. I have an end-to-end trajectory; however, in the course of writing, I tweak sub-plots to include contemporary occurrences,\u201d said Nagvenkar.<\/p>\n

Nagvenkar explores several platforms for publication but has found a keen audience on Instagram.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn Instagram, which has an active user base of two billion, I utilise intriguing creatives as covers to pique audience interest, and a \u2018beginning, middle and end\u2019 structure for the content portions drafted to give more context, but leave readers wanting more simultaneously,\u201d stated Nagvenkar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Goa Khabar : Exploring Goa\u2019s ever-changing cultural, social landscape via a live, bilingual and futuristic novel which is rooted in contemporary facts, has enabled a breakaway from the futility and lack of purpose of modern-day journalism, stated Goan author and former journalist Mayabhushan Nagvenkar. Nagvenkar offered audiences insights into India\u2019s first live, bilingual novel titled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25169,"featured_media":94471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,6],"tags":[3794],"class_list":["post-94468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-155","category-6","tag-featured"],"read":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94472,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94468\/revisions\/94472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}