Great works of literature span generations and cultures, giving pleasure, insight and affirmation to vastly differing readers with strikingly dissimilar life experiences. Three leading writers discuss the attributes that make the same story appeal to readers of differing genders, ages, backgrounds, cultures and periods of time. What are the universal truths, and what enables some authors to put them down for all time?

K Satchidanandan in conversation with Perumal Murugan and Kannan Sundaram.

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  Perumal Murugan

  India

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  Kannan Sundaram

  India

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  K.Satchidanandan

  India