“The gatekeepers had a fixed idea of what ‘Indian writing’ should be—village dramas, family sagas, or immigrant suffering,” Venkatesh recalls. “I write about spaceships. I was told to ‘tone down the Sanskrit.’”
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Her characters are rarely the chosen ones. They are cartographers, lens grinders, textile dyers—artisans whose specific skills become vital when technology fails. chitra venkatesh