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Suketu Mehta

On winning the first Hutch Crossword Book Award for non-fiction for his book Maximum City.

Suketu Mehta
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This is the first major award for non-fiction writing in India. Will it encourage Indian non-fiction writers?
Why is Indian fiction so big and non-fiction not?
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Why did your book get strong reactions?
Is it part of the deal of writing non-fiction to have sources be angry with you?
Now you are writing a book on New York.
Are Bombay and New York similar?
What did you learn from Maximum City that you can use in your New York book?
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And what would you not do?
And would you want the book shorter?
After all the drama in your non-fiction book, do you want to write fiction?
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