Githa Hariharan Interviewed by Rosemary Sorensen

Githa Hariharan grew up in Bombay and Manila, and has lived in the USA. She now lives in New Delhi, where she has worked as an editor in a publishing house. Her second book, a collection of short stories called The Art of Dying, is also published by Penguin India. She began by responding to the division that was a point of discussion among judges, the difference between large social novels and the intimacy of more domestic centred books.