My review of Melanie Abrams first novel, Playing, has just run in Mint.

There, Abrams talks about what it’s like to write a novel that contains heavy  dollops of S&M and an Indian character who figures prominently in that story line, when you happen to be married to a well known Indian literary figure – Vikram Chandra –  and also married into a very filmi family.

Abrams and Chandra welcomed their first child, daughter Leela Sidney Chandra, into the world on May 6.   More on Abrams filmi details here.