India, June 2 -- The unique ways in which you introduce your characters - 'I stalk a woman on the internet who is sleeping with the same man as I am' or 'the man I want to be with' - not only centralise the point that the story of the unnamed protagonist of I'm a Fan can be anyone's story but also how self-referential neoliberalism had made people. Please tell us your thoughts on the characterisation.

I didn't really make a choice. When I sat down to write, the story just came out like that - that she didn't have a name, that nobody else had a name, or if they did, they'd be minor characters. You're right that every character is in relation to her because she's so powerless. This is her way to exert power: to rename everybody. But it als...