11th March 2022.

The transportive powers of fiction are incomparable and have nurtured a space for infinite imagination in our minds. Tarana Husain Khan’s The Begum and the Dastan paints pageantry of the feudal past, a myriad of characters, themes and moments in time. Vandana Singh Lal’s novel about twin sisters disillusioned by the structures of modernity titled, So All is Peace, offers a specific social commentary via the medium of endless supposition. Khan and Lal, both experiment with genre, style, established notions and varying perspectives in their work. In conversation with literary agent Kanishka Gupta, they discuss writing fiction and the journey across possibilities at the Jaipur Literature Festival.