Informed by her time as a journalist in Mumbai and Delhi, Deepa Anappara’s début is a fine portrait of modern-day India. The roots of Deepa Anappara’s exceptional debut novel lie in her experience as ...

Former journalist Deepa Anappara exposes the plight of India’s “missing” children in a story of abduction told from the viewpoint of a nine-year old boy, Jai. Despite the challenging subject matter, ...

When we first meet Jai, the nine-year-old narrator of journalist-turned-novelist Deepa Anappara’s Djinn Patrol On The Purple Line, he’s looking at his house, in an urban Indian slum, with upside-down ...

In an email interview, Deepa Anappara talks about writing her book ‘Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line’ and the joy of winning an AutHer Award. Excerpts from the interview: My suggestions would be to ...

Deepa Anappara is a journalist who spent more than a decade covering India, a lot of that time in poor neighborhoods. Picture tin shacks, tarps on the roof, electricity from a tangle of wires. DEEPA ...

This is FRESH AIR. You probably wouldn't expect humor to be a key element in a story about child kidnapping and human trafficking in India. But our book critic, Maureen Corrigan, says Deepa Anappara's ...

The five-book-strong shortlist for the Rs 25-lakh JCB Prize for Literature 2020 (with an additional prize money of Rs 10 lakh for the translator in case the winning book is a translation) has been ...

One rainy morning you leave for your sister’s hospital to pick up a prescription for morphine. She is six years younger than you and she has stage four cancer, and the pain behind her ribs will not ...