Chandan

Publishing a compilation of everything an author has written is common in many Indian languages, but conspicuously absent in English. While it is the more celebrated authors that get compilations, these generally run into dozens of volumes since they include every writing and utterance — from famous works to diaries, speeches, and fragments. They provide an overview of the author’s trajectory and trivia, which help better contextualise their work. UR Ananthamurthy in a picture dated 30 January 2014. (Aniruddha…

How did the idea of Panchayat come up first? The idea came to me in 2017. Though I started writing it in 2018. I was working at TVF (the OTT streaming service) where I worked on many sketches. Then came a point when I thought it was time to graduate to a longer format. So when they needed a second writer on Humorously Yours, I contributed to that as well. Then I thought of developing a show of my own. At the time, I was exploring the idea of an educated city guy going to a village for a job. Initially, I had thought of…