mad means insane, enthusiastic, foolish, angry, frenzied, exciting, and great and remarkable. It sums up the range of life itself, how I arrive at my point of view, and the effects of consuming it.

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Right now I'm delivering an especially hot variety of mad words. They’re centred around the making of my first book, a collection of narrative nonfiction essays about how crazy life is in modern India. The book was accepted to the South Asia Speaks fellowship for outstanding emerging writers, and was repped by Kanishka Gupta. It’s being published by Aleph Book Company in 2024.

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