For her debut novel, Deepa Anappara takes on the task of writing about poverty in a child’s voice | Eye News,The Indian Express

For her debut novel, Deepa Anappara takes on the task of writing about poverty in a child’s voice | Eye News,The Indian Express

For her debut novel, Deepa Anappara takes on the task of writing about poverty in a child’s voice

FEBRUARY 23, 2020 10:08:03 AM

The UK-based debutante writer, who trains the lens on poverty in her refusal to explain India to her Western readers, rues that the only Indian writers people in the UK have read are Booker Prize winners, and how it's still difficult for writers of colour to get published