Roy came to Chobi Mela International Festival of Photography to speak at the session “Utmost Everything,” moderated by eminent photographer Shahidul Alam, at Midas Centre in Dhanmondi. Shahidul asked Roy about how she chose to become a writer after she studied architecture and worked in cinema as an actor and production designer. In response, the writer said she was a very un-ambitious person and expected only 17 people to read her first book. “I worked on it (‘God of Small Things’) for many years and had no idea what would become of it. “I would go to a place like Kashmir and know what I had to say politically about Kashmir was simple and I said it.

Source: Dhaka Tribune March 05, 2019 18:00 UTC