Five Questions for: Rana Dasgupta January 27, 2012, 7:01 am India Ink asked authors attending the recent Jaipur Literature Festival five questions about writing and about themselves. Heather Timmons caught up with the author of "Solo." Scare yourself. If you are not staking everything on what you write, it will be neutral for everyone else too. Is there really such a thing? A novel has to be retrieved from the far unknown: it's hardly surprising if you have to spend some time unsure of what you're doing. But when it has come fully into view your problem is the opposite of a "block" - your problem is how to stop the torrent long enough to sleep, eat and prove to those around you that you are still alive. I don't. I try to stay pretty clear of reviews, especially bad ones. Either they're wrong, which is annoying. Or they're right, which is much worse. Wagner. If you're asking me to dream, I'll put it onstage. With some trombones. Do you know the pleasure of coming halfway out of a dream and suddenly realizing where all those strange fragments came from? How that beautifully bewildering story actually derives from the most real of things? If that pleasure means anything to you, it is the one I tried to give, at novel length, to the reader of "Solo."