India, July 19 -- * What happened precisely to set you on a confrontationist path with the media?

Let me clarify that I have never been at war with them; even now I have no problems. In fact, I have had a very healthy relationship with journalists. I have had differences of opinion with scribes, critics and even had a laugh over a cup of tea despite them. I respect their area of work, don't think they are unfair and accept their right to comment. But that dynamic has changed over the last couple of years as I sense a deliberate attempt to humiliate me as an artist. This consistent slander has indeed affected me. I can even analyse the changing interest in me as a subject. I was struggling since 2006-7 and till 2013, I was irrelevant. The...