Amritesh Mukherjee
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Despite the back-and-forth switching of timelines and the element of mystery to the story, it’s a deeply personal book. I sat down with Anisha for a virtual conversation (as befits a novel with ample commentary on today’s industrial tech-world) on Girls Who Stray, her process behind it, her relationship with Delhi, feminism, politics, and a bunch of other stuff.
To sue an AI company over copyright infringement while using AI for your own book covers: is this hypocrisy or strategy? Even as the Federation of Indian Publishers battles OpenAI in Delhi courts, artificial intelligence is ghostwriting blurbs, creating marketing texts, generating promotional reels, and crafting the very covers that get on bestseller lists.
To read these novels is to sit inside contradiction. They are testimonies of fracture: caste tightening its grip, patriarchy reciting its justifications, Partition refusing to stay in the past, poverty trapping ambition, love rusted by tradition. Together, they remind us that literature is a witness against the silences of a nation.
