Thrilled to bits to have a short story in the very cool and utterly self-possessed American magazine nplusone. It begins thus. “How did the singer meet the prince? In all stories of love, we must know how the lovers met, how they met again, how they almost missed each other and, sometimes, how they...

My new story in Pratlipi magazine begins thus: Bangalore Four years ago Sabbah had written eleven short stories about different generations of a family in Madurai. At the time of submission to publishers, she had loved most of the stories. When ten of the stories were picked and arranged into a book called How To Eat...