Hello friends and readers,

I’m happy to share this Q&A with Deepti Kapoor, whose second novel, Age of Vice, I reviewed last month. Kapoor’s first novel, A Bad Character, was published in 2015, a prelude of sorts to the sprawling Age of Vice, which came out last year and earned heaps of praise for it’s take on wealth, crime, and violence in modern India. It’s the first book in a planned trilogy and TV rights have been sold to FX Studio — this would make a great a TV series.

Kapoor was born in the ...