What tells a person they can write great books? Watch as writer Rana Dasgupta – who just won the Windham-Campbell Prize – discusses what keeps him going. Also in this interview: his atypical definitions of home and belonging; his interactions with the nouvea-riche of Delhi in the early Aughts; and his views on how AI programs could end up being the truthtellers of our age. What could this mean for society, ideologies, democracy? Dasgupta’s next book, After Nations, explores this (among other things), and he touches upon that work here too.

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