Nepal, June 18 -- Milee Aishwarya is the publisher and senior group vice president of the Adult Publishing Group at Penguin India. She has worked with giants such as Arundhati Roy and Sudha Murthy, among others, in her seventeen years at the company and publishes over 250 books each year.

Aishwarya was in Kathmandu to attend the Kalinga Literary Festival, where she spoke in panel discussions about Ila Arun and Rohini Rana's new book 'Memories on a Platter'. She was also on a panel commemorating the late Piyush Pandey.

In this conversation with the Post's Rivash Rijal, Aishwarya discusses the need for reading in today's political landscape and what makes a good writer, among other things.

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