The Way We Read

Welcome to the reunion! After a wildly-delayed studio recording, Supriya and Deepanjana catch up to discuss their reading highlights from 2025. It was an unusually brilliant year for Indian fiction in English, diving into powerful examinations of deep familial ties and modern loneliness. The Lit Pickers exchange notes on Arundhati Roy’s dazzling “Mother Mary Comes to Me”, Jeet Thayil’s genre-blurring “The Elsewhereians”, Rahul Bhattacharya's masterful “Railsong” and its nuanced portrayal of working women navigating freedom, and much more. Read Supriya’s brilliant review of “Mother Mary Comes to Me” here. If you miss us before then, please dive into our archive, or reach out to us on @supriyanair and @dpanjana on Instagram. If you have any books, reading or literature-related questions, please email us at [email protected]. For a list of all the books mentioned in the season so far, check out this link This is a Maed In India Production; check us out at www.maedinindia.in. Creative Director: Mae Mariyam Thomas Project Manager: Shaun Fanthome Head of Audio: Kartik Kulkarni Sound Editor: Nihar Temkar Artwork: Alika Gupta Theme Music: Easy Wanderlings - Here’s to You