Author Spotlight

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Community interviews with leading lights from the Indian literary community. Use the prompts to submit your questions for featured authors.

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November 21, 2025 @Night_reader | Talk to Sanjana Ramachandran about her book Famous Last Questions. Drop your questions!
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"So I wanted to ask the author, like after exploring spirituality and practices like Vipassana, do you believe that modern Indians can find wholeness just by doing internal spiritual work? Or do they also need to actively fight against external society pressure, family culture, etc. Like to truly achieve it?"
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November 18, 2025 @d_saakshi | Ask O. Jungio, author of A Kite Of Farewells about the coming together of the stories from Nagaland
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"Hello, sir, Sakshi here. So I just read your book A Kite of Farewells and it was a really great read. So my question to you is that you wrote many stories in one book. So what inspired you to write such stories? And what was your favorite story from the entire book?"
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November 18, 2025 @sauceless_pasta | Ask O. Jungio, author of A Kite Of Farewells about the coming together of the stories from Nagaland
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"Hello, sir. My name is Siddhant. And my question is that in order to write this book and compile all these stories, you must have interviewed and met a lot of interesting people. So which of them was your most favorite? Who inspired you? Or who stood out the most to you while exploring ideas for this book? Thank you."
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November 18, 2025 @firdoshkhan56 | Ask O. Jungio, author of A Kite Of Farewells about the coming together of the stories from Nagaland
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"Hello, sir. This is Firdosh, and I really loved reading A Kite of Fables. My question is about the balance between the stories. The book explores farewells, which is a universal human experience. But each story is so deeply rooted in the culture and setting of Nagaland. So was it challenging to write something that was both so local and so universal at the same time? Thank you."
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November 18, 2025 @mimansaaa | Ask O. Jungio, author of A Kite Of Farewells about the coming together of the stories from Nagaland
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"Hello sir, this is Mimansa. I read your book and it was a really great read. And I actually noticed how you use simple objects and gave them feelings. So while I was reading it, I was just wondering that every story, like each story that you've written, is connected to a simple object. For example, there's a scoreboard. There's Amma's casserole."
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November 18, 2025 @amanposidion | Ask O. Jungio, author of A Kite Of Farewells about the coming together of the stories from Nagaland
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"Hello sir, this is Aman. So first of all, it was a great read. The book really taught me a lot. So my question to you is, what motivated you to write the basic background of this book based on Nagaland? And how did you get to know about all the tradition and renditions that happened in the stories that we read? Thank you."
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November 17, 2025 @AuthorSpotlight | In Conversation with Author Arundhati Nath.
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"The dichotomies of this very complex modern world where there's a lot of violence, a lot of polarization, and yet hanging on to a certain calm, a certain tranquility when you read the stories of your cultural roots. So I don't think any of this will lose relevance. And also I was very careful when I chose keeping them to these short stories which will, you know, keep the imagination active and keep your curiosity wetted. So. And I was actually, to be."
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October 21, 2025 @AuthorSpotlight | Q&A with Priya Arora, author of 'Life is a Battlefield'
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"That's what I tried to do. And again, I say it's a universal, it's universal wisdom. Yes. So I've written it from that point of view. And I've also included in my book other people who've spoken about the same thing, much after Sri Krishna, of course, because he was the original."
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October 21, 2025 @AuthorSpotlight | Q&A with Bishhal Paull, author of 'The Liar Among Us'
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"So most of the times like 99% people, while they have stories within them. Every one of us has a story within us, but we don't have the courage to write beyond a few pages because we all tend to be so harsh on ourselves. Right. Because we have been readers first. Similarly, on entrepreneurship or media also, when we, you know, we decide to take up lunch, everyone around us also discourages us. We are so, you know, skeptical and fearful."
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October 07, 2025 @rishitsriram200 | A celebrity RJ Joseph Annamkutty Jose is a powerful storyteller. Ask a question about his book, Not All Angels Fly...
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"Did any of the characters in your book come from real people you have known or experiences you have had?"
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How many episodes does Author Spotlight have?

The podcast currently has 238 episodes available.