There are relatively few bookstores in India. The industry is passing through a good and bad phase. What’s your take on this, and on independent booksellers not getting enough room? Amazon has come under fire for monopolising bookselling and has faced off against publishers globally, too. Your earlier publisher, Westland, was shut down by Amazon recently due to business reasons. Truth is the best disinfectant to historical and community divisions. Similar calm and scholarly investigation should be done on Indian history. These conversations must happen calmly, without targeting the descendants or communities of the historical criminals, as that is wrong. But in the West, much of this conversation has been surrounded by a lot of anger, which I think is avoidable. Yale University is named after Elihu Yale - again a slave trader - and the name is facing scrutiny. The legacy of Cecil Rhodes is being challenged as he was a slave owner, who committed massive crimes in Africa. For example, the British Raj is being seen in a new light, and not as a relatively benign force as it was seen earlier. Many historical claims in the West are being reinvestigated, with deeper scholarly analysis. How do you differentiate between a scholarly investigation into such claims and what might be a bigoted agenda? In light of recent petitions to investigate mosques for signs of destroyed temples underneath, historians have claimed that some of these claims are exaggerated. A post shared by Author Amish and fiction come together in your work.
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