In the end, a place in a story is true not because it exists on a map, but because it is the only place that specific character could have ever been born in.
About The Author
Vivek Shanbhag is the author of ten works of fiction and three plays in Kannada. Ghachar Ghochar, the first of his novels to be published in English, was translated into more than 20 languages. He is the co-translator of U.R. Ananthamurthy’s book, ‘Hindutva or Hind Swaraj’, into English. Shanbhag is a visiting professor of Creative Writing at Ashoka University, Sonipat, Haryana

