India, Sept. 27 -- Towards the end of Kiran Desai's Booker-longlisted The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny - her first work of fiction in two decades - Babita, mother of one of the titular characters, Su... Read More
India, Sept. 20 -- Sonia thinks of how a story about kebabs can end up being something larger: "This was India. You might try to write a slender story, but it inevitably connected to a larger one." Wa... Read More