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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