Book Shook | Anuradha Roy on Living in the Mountains and Writing 'Called by the Hills'

Name: Book Shook | Anuradha Roy on Living in the Mountains and Writing Called by the Hills - The Wire
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Description: Roy spoke to The Wire's Jahnavi Sen about the book, her writing process and the growing precarity faced by those living in the mountains.

Roy spoke to The Wire's Jahnavi Sen about the book, her writing process and the growing precarity faced by those living in the mountains.

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Roy spoke to The Wire's Jahnavi Sen about the book, her writing process and the growing precarity faced by those living in the mountains.

book shook anuradha roy on living in the mountains and writing called by the hills

More than 25 years ago, author-artist-ceramicist Anuradha Roy and her husband came across a derelict cottage at the edge of a Ranikhet estate and decided that was where they wanted to live. Roy has written about her life since – and the life of the landscapes surrounding her – in Called by the Hills, her first book-length non-fiction work. She spoke to The Wire's Jahnavi Sen about the book, her writing process and the growing precarity faced by those living in the mountains.

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