My thinking process starts with my pen: Gulzar

Having written poetries and film songs for more than half a century, lyricist Gulzar is now trying to keep pace with the Gen-X but can’t change his old habit of writing on pen and paper.

“My thinking process starts with my pen. So without lagging behind others I use my own method of putting pen on paper,” Gulzar told when asked about if he has switched to writing on computers and tablets. Showing his hand-written poetries in a notebook during a visit to Kolkata, the 80-year-old legendary lyricist-poet who has penned Kajrare and Beedi Jalai le says, “I write in Urdu and everything is written by my hand. 

<g data-gr-id="11">You people</g> write on computers and I respect that”.