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Deepti Kapoor Discusses “Age of Vice” with Parul Sehgal

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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How Journalism Influenced the Writing of Neda

I was a bad journalist. I spent a lot of time driving in my car trying to figure out what was going on in the city, which I did. But I'm not very good at doggedly kind of like pursuing a story. It's tricky because you're trying to rouse people or wake them, but not in that kind of usual way. And I had that awakening when after the Jothi Singh, rape and murder is this moment for something happened - it feels like it was similar to maybe the Manson murders. Yeah, think so, you know, maybe indict them. Indite them, entrap them, yeah, yeah.

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