Ms. spoke with taniajam about her research process, her craft choices, and what it feels like to write a book about empire in the shadow of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing.
about Indiana Jones, in which you took an existing—albeit fictional—character and imagined him in an Indian setting.! I often find I need to impose breaks during the span of a larger project, in part to revive my sense of play. A totally different genre and form can allow me to do that, and flash fiction works especially well, because I can write it in a period of time that’s not so long that I become detached from the novel.
How did you handle multilingualism in your storytelling?: Discovering the origins of the word loot felt like striking gold. What a perfect confluence of so many thoughts I was having about theft and conquest and trade! I suspect that, at the time this book takes place, the movement of language was as common as the movement of goods: there was a strong French expatriate presence in Mysore, Britishers often passed through the city, and Mysorean ambassadors traveled back and forth to West Asia.
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