Written by Surbhi Gupta |Updated: July 15, 2019 8:08:18 am
Author Devapriya Roy on her new book and the process of writing serialised fiction
Roy has written two novels, a travelogue The Heat and Dust Project (2015) and a graphic novel, Indira (2018). Her next book is a sequel to the travelogue, called Man. Woman. Road.
When author Devapriya Roy was first asked if she wanted to write a serialised novel, she dashed out the first chapter in a day. She knew that Lata Ghosh (once, Charulata Ghosh) would be her protagonist. En route to Heathrow on her way to Calcutta, Ghosh had unfinished business with Ronny Banerjee, her former classmate, who is now an enfant terrible among Tollywood’s filmmakers. “And I knew a little bit about her mother, Manjulika, who, in the manner of mothers, talks to Lata in Lata’s head. That’s literally all I knew,” says Roy, 35. In the second chapter, the nine-going-on-nineteen Pixie appeared, arguably one of the best-loved characters in the novel, who strikes up a conversation with Ghosh at Heathrow. That’s how Roy’s fiction evolved — “sentence-by-sentence and chapter-by-chapter”.
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