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<\/a><\/p>\nPoulomi wearing Anavila\u2019s handwoven linen sari and Neelum Narang earrings<\/strong><\/p>\n Q. What are you reading now?<\/strong><\/p>\n A. I tend to read a few books simultaneously. At the moment, apart from manuscripts, I\u2019m almost done with Neil Gaiman\u2019s Graveyard Book, midway through a thriller called After the Crash by Michel Bussi, and have just begun a classic that was recently recommended to me \u2013 Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston.<\/p>\n Q. Which books did you grow up reading? What do you return to and reread?<\/strong><\/p>\n A. The books I go back to are ones that I enjoyed very much as a child, many of them Bengali. Sukumar Ray\u2019s poetry and stories and plays in Bengali never fail to lift my spirits; Abanindranath Thakur\u2019s Raj Kahini and Buro Angla still fascinate me like they did when I first read them, or rather heard them because they were first read to me by my grandparents before I learnt to read; short stories by Saradindu Bandopadhyay, Sibaram Chakraborty, Satyajit Ray, Premendra Mitra. Then there\u2019s Edgar Allan Poe for the chills; Alice in Wonderland, which I can just open at any point and discover something profound in; and Asterix and Calvin and Hobbes comics. The other books I go back to are – To Kill a Mockingbird, and more recent reads, Neil Gaiman\u2019s The Ocean at the End of the Lane and Erin Morgenstern\u2019s Night Circus.<\/p>\n Poulomi wearing Neelum Narang earrings<\/strong><\/p>\n Q. Tell us about your work as an editor and publisher?<\/strong><\/p>\n A. For a publisher, it\u2019s important to have an editorial instinct \u2013 knowing that there\u2019s a readership for something. So you\u2019d have to have the combined factors of editorial taste and knowing the profit and loss math as well. It\u2019s a balance of the two.<\/p>\n Q. What sort of books do you work on?<\/strong><\/p>\n A. I acquire and publish across genres, which is fun and keeps things interesting. So while I\u2019ve done Krishna Udayasankar\u2019s Aryavarta trilogy (Govinda, Kaurava and Kurukshetra), which is very well done mytho-fiction, I\u2019ve also done literary novels and translations (Manjula Padmanabhan\u2019s The Island of Lost Girls, Samim Ahmed\u2019s Seven Heavens translated by Arunava Sinha, Saikat Majumdar\u2019s The Firebird), political nonfiction like Tavleen Singh\u2019s memoir Durbar, which was exciting because it had emergency history and political gossip from the years after, and Anita Raghavan\u2019s The Billionaire\u2019s Apprentice on the Rajat Gupta scandal. Coming up there is Pradeep Sebastian\u2019s wonderful novel on book collectors and book thieves, and non-fiction narratives on food and culture by Marryam Reshi and Anoothi Vishal that I\u2019m looking forward to working on.<\/p>\n Poulomi wearing a Raw Mango sari<\/strong><\/p>\n Q. What\u2019s your personal style like?<\/strong><\/p>\n A. I like to read fashion magazines and about fashion weeks and trends across the world, and have friends who are fashion designers \u2013 but my own dressing and style has more to do with comfort above anything else. I love dupattas, and dressing up simple kurtas with them. They can be in traditional weaves and designs, or hand-painted or in bright prints. I love my denims too \u2013 jeans and capris, shirts, shorts \u2013 and structured trousers and tops. I like wearing contrasting or unusual colour combinations. Unfortunately, I don\u2019t wear saris as often as I\u2019d like to, and I\u2019m glad this shoot gave me an opportunity to wear unusual drapes and get dressed up!<\/p>\n Shop Anavila\u2019s Handwoven Linen Saris<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Shop Raw Mango’s Checked Saris<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Shop Neelum Narang’s India Vintage Jewellery<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" IN CONVERSATION Poulomi Chatterjee Editor-in-Chief & Publisher, Hachette India On All Her Favourite Books Poulomi wearing Anavila\u2019s handwoven linen sari and Neelum Narang earrings Q. What are you reading now? A. I tend to read a few books simultaneously. 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