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Finally I found it in a tiny little shop, the proprietor telling me that the one I bought was one of the last copies he had left.

That is really surprising for a first time Indian author. I went to quite a few book shops and found that it was sold out in most places. I read the first chapter online and liked it well enough that I decided to buy it. Curious I tried reading up more about it and saw that noted columnists like Anil Dharkar and Sandipan Deb had given it great reviews. We need to be more united.I first heard about this book from a friend who had said that the book was a good read.

We’re internally very divided so can’t put across our case effectively. The MNC publishers, indie publishers, regional language publishers, all work separately. Online distribution has helped books reach even places which have no bookstores, but has also made piracy much easier. GST has made life difficult because the industry is exempt from GST. As rental prices have risen, many bookstores are finding it difficult to survive. There are relatively few bookstores in India. The industry is passing through a good and bad phase. What’s your take on this, and on independent booksellers not getting enough room? Amazon has come under fire for monopolising bookselling and has faced off against publishers globally, too. Your earlier publisher, Westland, was shut down by Amazon recently due to business reasons. Truth is the best disinfectant to historical and community divisions. Similar calm and scholarly investigation should be done on Indian history. These conversations must happen calmly, without targeting the descendants or communities of the historical criminals, as that is wrong.

But in the West, much of this conversation has been surrounded by a lot of anger, which I think is avoidable.

Yale University is named after Elihu Yale - again a slave trader - and the name is facing scrutiny. The legacy of Cecil Rhodes is being challenged as he was a slave owner, who committed massive crimes in Africa. For example, the British Raj is being seen in a new light, and not as a relatively benign force as it was seen earlier. Many historical claims in the West are being reinvestigated, with deeper scholarly analysis. How do you differentiate between a scholarly investigation into such claims and what might be a bigoted agenda? In light of recent petitions to investigate mosques for signs of destroyed temples underneath, historians have claimed that some of these claims are exaggerated. A post shared by Author Amish and fiction come together in your work.