Hyderabad, May 18 -- By Vandana Menon

"Listen deeper when the pace is quicker," writes Tuljha B Reddy in her debut collection Inheritance of Longing, in which stories tumble out one after the other - each one exploring the inner lives of women as they navigate their desires, moralities, and silences.

The collection maps the lives of women across class, caste, religion, and generations acrosscontemporary India, and is refreshingly honest: Reddy writes about women in all theircomplexities.

Her background as an architect and designer shines through her fiction - she is particularly attuned to how people inhabit their inner worlds when there's no one around, and how longing often shapes our emotional homes.

The collection spans eight stor...