Radhika Oberoi is the author of two novels, Stillborn Season (2018) and Of Mothers and Other Perishables (2024). She has contributed essays and book reviews to publications in India and abroad, including the New York Times (India Ink), Forbes India, Nikkei Asian Review, and The Wire. Her short stories have appeared in Indian Quarterly (IQ), the anthology Words and Women, and Otherwise Magazine. She earned an MA in fiction writing from the University of East Anglia.
Photo of India’s Independence Day, New Delhi / Alamy.comFollowing the June 2024 elections in India, making Narendra Modi the head of a coalition government, a writer from New Delhi decides to revisit…