Pankaj Mishra with Nihal Arthanayake
The Penguin Podcast
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Can Non Fiction Allow You to Tell This Story of India?
In what way does fiction allow you pancag to tell this story of india in a different way to non fiction? That's a very good question. Because, you know, i think i decided to go back to writing fiction after not having done it for 20 years because i felt that the non fiction i was doing wasn't able to capture a lot of the complexity of this transformation. O kno, say it could claim that, look, we've got a lot of prosperity, a lot of rich people in the country,. but they're a lot of poor people too, and there's a lot of inequality.
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