Mridula Ramesh ran out of water in her home in Madurai and that singular incident gave rise to a chain of actions that has now led us to a definitive book on the water crisis in India –– W...

Will you have a book coming out in 2022? Tell us a bit about it… If I ever get around to writing it, my Ambedkar book should be my contribution to the publishing frenzy for the 75th anniversar...

Did you make a New Year’s resolution?  Always the same: eat less, exercise more, stay away from sugar. How long will it last, do you think?  Until my husband brings home a box of my...

‘PARTS UNKNOWN’ I can’t help but ask her about the wildest experience shared with Tony Bourdain and a 2017 trip to Sri Lanka immediately falls off her tongue. Replete with crazy exp...

Jumping headlong into the debate between historians and historical novelists about the relevance of the other, Mehta asked Chand her thoughts on the significance of this debate. “Historians deal...

Yes, people are really hitting the ball out of the park with book promotions these days with social media playing a large role. This brings me to my next question, what are your personal relationships...

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 ...