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"I like to write about real people, real crimes. But what has increasingly come to interest me, and also appear to me as a challenge, is the idea of doing strange things with what is real. Take what is real and make it more or less real."

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About Amitava Kumar

Amitava Kumar is an Indian writer and journalist. He is a Professor of English at Vassar College and is known for nonfiction and fiction focused on identity, politics, and migration.

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