The loud cheer in the background to announce Rahul Dravid’s arrival at one of the events at the sixth edition of the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival means we have to up the decibel levels for our Q&A session with the soft-spoken Anosh Irani. He enquires about the length of this chat; he’s got a reading of his just released book, The Cripple and the Talismans, in an hour’s time, after all. In our head, we thought, ten minutes.

Anosh Irani describes how writing for a movie was different from a book, and how interesting it was to channelise someone else’s story and making it his own. Pic/Ryan Matis