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 writers of all time. But, regarding the structure of the book, I made a choice very early on - and it might not have been the most commercial one - to start the novel with three short stories to take readers into the character's social life before he [Ro Krishna] goes to India. It was important to me for readers to see what his world was like. One of the other major influences on this novel was Crazy Rich Asians (by Kevin Kwan), so I wanted to portray a world where Indian people were, in a social atmosphere, completely equal to everyone else. S...