Anjum Hasan is the author of the short story collection Difficult Pleasures (2012), the novelsNeti, Neti (2009) and Lunatic in my Head (2007) and the collection of poems, Street on the Hill(2006). Her book reviews, essays and travelogues are widely published. She is books editor atThe Caravan magazine and lives in Bangalore, India. Photo by Bulbul Hasan