Kitty's War: Daman Singh & Jaya Bhattacharji Rose

Daman Singh has written three novels, Nine By Nine, The Sacred Grove and Kitty’s War; as well as two works of non-fiction, The Last Frontier: People and Forests in Mizoram and Strictly Personal, a biography of her parents Manmohan Singh and Gursharan Kaur.

Jaya Bhattacharji Rose is an independent international publishing consultant associated with the industry since the early 1990s. She has written reports for Publishers Association and Canada Livre Book. Her articles and interviews have been published in Frontline, The Book Review, The Hindu, Brunch, Scroll, Bookwitty.com, LOGOS, Kitaabnama, the Guardian, the Independent, BBC Radio and Radio France. Her blog has crossed 5.9 million visitors.

Kitty's War
Daman Singh’s latest novel, Kitty’s War, explores life and love in a railway town against the backdrop of World War II and the Indian freedom movement. Situated in a time of social and economic tension, the meticulously researched narrative features ordinary people who were faced with difficult choices about their personal, communal and national identities. In conversation with Jaya Bhattacharji Rose, she speaks of the process of writing a ‘period novel’, the dilemmas of the time and the choices her characters make.

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