India, June 16 -- In an interview with the Booker Foundation in 2023, you mention making notes while working as a security guard. How did you transform that into Standing Heavy?

It was a lazy experience [being a security guard]. It was boring. In most countries, a security guard serves no real function. Because security is not the point. The point is to say to people that there is security [in place]. So, companies put out someone well-dressed to say to people, who come into their big shops of consumerism, 'Hey, look at us; look at our shop. Look out there, there is a big black guy who guarantees you your security.'

The very first day at the job I was amazed at people's consumerist behaviour. Before inventing fiction for it, I decided t...