(Published in Femina, November 13, 2013 issue) Tell us a little about yourself, your work and educational background. I grew up in Madras, as it was then called. I studied English Literature, and then worked part-time as an English…
(Published in Femina, November 13, 2013 issue) Tell us a little about yourself, your work and educational background. I grew up in Madras, as it was then called. I studied English Literature, and then worked part-time as an English…
(A shorter version of this appeared in The Ladies Finger. This interview was done by Shruthi Padmanabhan, whose awesome blog can be found here.) Take us through the process of how you found the women to be featured in this…
(A shorter version of this appeared in Ink magazine.) So, can we get started with this farce? Weird, I thought you’d be some sort of projected animus. Isn’t that how self-interviews work? Well, I can cut my hair short and…
(A shorter version of this appeared here: http://www.thehindu.com/books/books-authors/stories-from-the-shaadi-mandi/article5186002.ece) How many women did you speak with and how did you pick the stories that ended up in the book? I must have spoken to around 30 women and 10 men in…
(This is the full-text of an email interview, which was used for this article in The Asian Age) How would you describe your book in a few words? Hitched is a non-fiction book on young, urban, educated women from across…
(Published in Business World Online, retrieved from http://www.businessworld.in/news/books/authors-corner/the-book-validates-several-choices-i-made/1075721/page-1.html) Why this book? Why do you think a reader should pick up this book? Well, this book looks at a very specific societal grid – urban, educated, modern women across the country, belonging…
(A shorter version of this interview was carried on Sify.com: http://www.sify.com/news/men-are-a-lot-worse-off-in-the-arranged-marriage-market-imagegallery-0-features-nj1hw7jihej.html) After so many conversations, what did you learn about the institution of arranged marriage? Essentially, that people care enough about the institution for me to make a profit from writing…
The following is the full text of an interview with Renu Dhole of Sakal Times. This originally appeared in the format in this picture. Scroll down for the text. What were you trying to achieve when you started out compiling…
(Reproduced from the website of The Wall Street Journal, http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2013/08/23/the-modern-woman-and-arranged-marriage/) When Nandini Krishnan started researching for her book about urban educated women who enter arranged marriages in India, she was surprised by two things: First, how many of these women there…
This is the full transcript of one of the interviews I most enjoyed doing, with Joanna Sugden of The Wall Street Journal. Do check out the relevant article here. The book looks great, and something that seems like quite an…
