‘When going to work becomes a powerful statement’: Anil Dharker | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

‘When going to work becomes a powerful statement’: Anil Dharker | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Updated: July 19, 2019 2:33:25 pm

‘When going to work becomes a powerful statement’: Anil Dharker

At the launch of The City and the Sea in Mumbai, Anil Dharker spoke to Raj Kamal Jha on his new book, why he doesn’t name his characters and how the backstory informs the stories we tell

Anil Dharker (right) in conversation with Raj Kamal Jha in Mumbai. (Express photo by Nirmal Harindran)

We have too few women in public space. That’s why a woman going to work every day becomes, in itself, a very powerful statement. And a social compact that cannot guarantee her right to go to work and return safely is broken and has to be contested,” said Raj Kamal Jha, at the Mumbai launch of his fifth and latest novel, The City and the Sea.