India, Oct. 27 -- Tell us about the structure of your debut novel? Were you influenced by Agatha Christie in writing it?I was hugely influenced by Agatha Christie. She's undoubtedly one of the best wr... Read More
India, Oct. 21 -- You've dedicated This American Woman to American women who "showed" you your voice. However, it can be argued that you were quite vocal before you were "found". Tell us about what co... Read More
India, Oct. 15 -- From caste dynamics in the capital to AI history and the intersection of faith and gayness, this reading list is as vibrant as the rainbow flag. In The Writing Life, Annie Dillard n... Read More
India, Oct. 2 -- From the 1970s through the 1980s, North Korean agents abducted several Japanese citizens who had accidentally stumbled upon their activities in Japan. The case of 13-year-old Megumi Y... Read More
India, Sept. 29 -- Before this translation of Benyamin's novel, I had read your translation of VJ James' The Book of Exodus. Though different, both novels borrow extensively from religious texts which... Read More
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
India, Aug. 30 -- 1The South was conceived as an 800-page epic, but you felt writing a book like that was "hypermasculine". Such realisations often escape writers. How did you rethink the book as part... Read More
India, Aug. 30 -- The South was originally conceived as an 800-page epic, but you felt something "hypermasculine about writing a book like that". In writing a novel that deals with a mix of celebrated... Read More
India, Aug. 22 -- The Philip Barantini-directed four-part Netflix miniseries Adolescence unsettled audiences worldwide. In its first episode, the police storm into the home of a murder suspect. Viewer... Read More