I think other people’s words and ideas are like fertilizer; your own don’t develop, grow or change without them. We catch up with Anuradha Roy on her writing, nationalism, men-women relationships in her books and more.

All The Lives We Never Lived has been selected from a list of 156 novels submitted by library systems in 119 cities in 40 countries. This novel is Anuradha Roy’s fourth novel and is also the winner of the Tata Literature Live Book of the Year Award (2018).

The female narrative is traditionally overwritten by societal roles – Mother, Wife, Sister, Daughter. But what about the woman? Anuradha Roy’s All The Lives We Never Lived explores the meaning and effects of childhood, motherhood, family, ambition and nationalism through multiple perspectives and experiences – think an Indian female artist, a German artist and adventurer, […]