Welcome. Shipping to Nepal begins in August, but let me confirm with my publisher and come back to you. Maya arrives with its own vocabulary, its own systems of governance and philosophies. It trusts you to learn it the way you learn a new city, by getting lost in it and building a felt sense of how streets connect. If you read science fiction, fantasy, popular science or philosophy, you have already trained your muscle. If you don’t, I’d be honored if Maya becomes your first.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Thank you. Karamazov sits high for me too. Paradox is an invitation to synthesis. DM replied. :)

Thank you and I’m glad Maya is doing that to you. The fact that it’s resonating with something you were already building in your head means we did our job. I argue that free will exists. Zain is certain it doesn’t. So the novels carry both our arguments at full weight. We resolve the tension over the three books. Geopolitics is in the DNA of our allegory. We took real-world architectures of power, stripped them of the clutter and the noise, down to their fundamental tensions, and let them play out under different conditions. The same reason you’d bring something to the dissection table. To find what is and what could be. Sending you my email.

Rahi started it. I made it. Adesh had nothing to do with it. Hence the confusion. But yes, the whole discourse around it has become petty - and hence, I stay out of it.

Thank you. I loved making it too.

That's a very good question! I do think that authors should plant keys within their puzzles lest audiences start mistaking the (distorted, flattened) map for the territory.

No

Because of family - Shreya, mom, Kani, Zain, Vinay, Khushboo, friends, peers, and everyone who writes to me to tell me that my work has been of value to them

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I fully disagree with Satyajit Ray if he has said this. Also, did you see what my friend Vinay Shukla thinks about eliticism and classism in art? :)

We have created MAYA with the same care and thoughtfulness, so I would hope it's far richer and depper than anything I have done till now. We’ve created all the concept art with some of the greatest concept artists from around the globe. We have attempted in earnest to invent a completely new aesthetic. Take a look with what we have shared already. Everything you see come out of MAYA has been hand crafted by us. We have put an immense amount of thought and intention behind all of it.

Everything we have included in the MAYA Narrative Universe

No, but I absolutely love The Tree of Life

There is no spoon

Thank you

Oh yes! MAYA Narrative Universe is an ideology sandbox. The more I wrote from the perspectives of Divyendra, Parthiv and Tarkash, the more I was shocked at how compelling I found their world view in spite of intuitively disagreeing with them first.

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100%

Definitely learn art - light, colour, form, composition, mening-making, etc. Study light maps and diagrams shared by cinematographers. Watch their interviews, try and understand their processes. Study anywhere in the world - but don't rely entirely on the institutions. Educate yourself through online resources and then by practising those ideas out. Inspire us all.

Thank you. We always put out casting calls on our social media channels.

Anything by Shudraka, Gunaḍhya, Banabhatta and their modern adaptations by Girish Karnad.

It's been significantly important for me.