Writers are usually nervous about labels. Like Asian. Immigrant. Or gay. . But novelist Manil Suri actually likes to bring up that gay stuff during interviews. Manil Suri has written two acclaimed novels. But his latest The City of Devi is in a sense his coming out novel.
Ploughing through aisles and aisles of books selling guides to cracking management exams and microwave cookery, Sandip Roy wonders if he's been fooled by all these lines into believing in a city that is still enamored of actually reading...
What happens when a few hundred thousand people from around the world throng into an old palace in Rajasthan on a wintry January morning? Welcome to the Jaipur Literature Festival.
