i come from partitionair refugees. The partition of indianbackis done. And so this was like a a group of people. There's no time for anything frivolous, i think that i describe would thike, that kind of constant anxiety and fear. I think your mamma's coming from now ane to read those books, i think so. You know, especially in fiction like those are, those are the kinds of truths that are heretical and challenging and a bit dangerous and and not obvious and stranger.
Parul Sehgal, a former a book critic for The New York Times, is now a staff writer at The New Yorker.
“My job is I think to be honest with the reader and to keep surfacing new ways for me and for other people to think about books. New vocabularies of pleasure and disgust.”
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