V. Sanjay Kumar
V. Sanjay Kumar's latest novel is The Third Squad.
From his interview with Dyuit Basu for the Deccan Chronicle:
You usually set your books in specific city backdrops. How intrinsic is the city backdrop to your plot?--Marshal Zeringue
The city is everything. The city is the writer Italo Calvino’s muse as well. In his book Invisible Cities he said, ‘You take delight not in a city’s seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.’
I have questions, many of them, and they arise when I walk the streets of cities like Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi and Kolkata. I am an inadvertent explorer; I observe people and overhear conversations. These days, I measure my walks in sentences. Each sentence triggers...[read on]
