In some ways, your book is also a cast commentary. What are your thoughts on that? It is about cast and it’s about religion. It’s a deeply human story. But I think it’s not a coinci...

What is your writing process like? I sit down and bleed. I used to be a night owl but now it’s more of a discipline, because now, it’s a job. I wake up, I have my coffee and I sit down to...

PHILOSOPHY IN THE STORY Life and death were perhaps the very first themes that the author had imagined for this book. There was a baby being born and a mother was dying. From the very inception of th...

How involved were you in the movie-making process for Wonder? Wonder was my first book and it was optioned very early in the process. I was involved very little and the producers were kind enough to ...

Tell us about your involvement with cinematic adaptations of your books? I’ve been very fortunate so far to be involved with All the Bright Places –– I wrote the script, was involve...

Tell us about the experience of having your book made into a movie. I think you’ve got to take each project as it sort of comes because they’re not always going to be the same. I saw The ...

It was a need to write about something political, intimate and about women that led Razak to the trauma of Indian Partition in 1947. Listening to the radio one night in her cafe, she heard a show call...

What is your writing process like? Where do you draw inspiration from? I live my life along with writing, I haven’t made writing the entire purpose of my life, it is just something I enjoy doin...

Tell us about the inception of the book. After writing non-fiction for over a decade, I felt a compulsion to move towards fiction. There were stories that I was not able to harness in non-fiction. I ...

• It was only a matter of time before Singh realised the richly researched content that was available in the form of his podcast scripts that he could collate into a book and thus was born his la...