Author Namita Gokhale on her book Jaipur Journals, why she feels writers are lonely creatures

Namita Gokhale speaks to us about her latest book, Jaipur Journals, which was launched at the Jaipur Literature Festival by Shashi Tharoor. Namita is also the co-founder of the Jaipur Literature Festival along with William Dalrymple.

After having authored up to eighteen works of fiction and non-fiction, Gokhale's Jaipur Journals is a metafictional novel, set against the vibrant and multilingual Jaipur Literature Festival. The book is an ode to literature itself and is published by Penguin India.

Gokhale's acclaimed debut novel, Paro: Dreams of Passion, published in 1984, has remained a cult classic and has been issued in a double edition with its sequel Priya. She has worked extensively across genres on Indian mythology, including her retelling of the Indian epic in The Puffin Mahabharata, and her novel for young readers, Lost in Time: Ghatotkacha and the Game of Illusions.