In Mumbai and Bangalore this weekend

I'll be speaking about "The Pleasures and Riches of Indian Literature" at the launches of my anthology India: A Traveller's Literary Companion in Mumbai tomorrow and in Bangalore on Saturday. In Bangalore, Anjum Hasan and Jayant Kaikini will read from their stories in the book.

The Mumbai event is at Crossword, Kemp's Corner, at 6.30 pm tomorrow, and the Bangalore event at Crossword, Residency Road at 7pm on Saturday. If you live in either of these cities, I hope you'll join me.

The introduction to the book is here, and an interview about fiction as a lens on landscape here.