There’s a character in Anuradha Roy’s novel ‘Sleeping on Jupiter’. He’s mad, has no money, sleeps wherever he can find shelter. He cultivates a twig, plants it in the sand …
‘But Johnny Topo now had other customers and was asking if they wanted the sweet biscuits or the salty ones in exactly the tones he had put those questions to …
For some reason, I found myself looking up the name ‘Arundhati Roy’, winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 for her novel The God of Small Things—and …