Between discussions, readings and workshops, silence echoes through the plush Tata Theatre at Nariman Point, its high ceiling and wall-to-wall red carpet — and perhaps the collective psychic energy of all the creative minds the Mumbai Lit Fest garnered here — leading us to imagine that we’ve walked into a grand, haunted haveli, into the predictable plot of one of those old horror movies. Even without an organ playing ominously in the background, we expect a phantom to materialise any second now. Mercifully, the only thing that appears out of nowhere is a little library.

Authors Benjamin Law, Annie Zaidi, Chandrahas Choudhury, Kirsty Murray and Sudeep Sen at Tata Theatre, NCPA. Pic/Sayed Sameer Abediu00a0