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SPECIAL SERIES Pankaj Mishra, 37 BACKROOM BOY When Pankaj Mishra wrote his first book, the travelogue Butter Chicken in Ludhiana, he didn't want his photograph on the back cover. Now as he awaits the worldwide release of his much-hyped novel The Romantics, he is still wary of publicity. He has reasons to be. Having received a reported half a million dollars as advance for a book that's being touted as the next Big Thing in Indian English writing, media overkill is the last thing he wants. The former chief editor at HarperCollins, he says a deal gets "exaggerated in India because the idea of literary success is still attached in the colonial way, to the idea of success in the imperial metropolis". For now, Mishra will continue writing "more essays and reviews and hopefully, another book." You get the picture. Low key. -Bindu Menon |
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