With two book releases this year, author Anu Kumar is sitting pretty. It Takes a Murder and Inspector Angre and the Pizza Delivery Boy deal with violence but both titles look at life and living from different lens. Novelist, essayist, children’s storywriter and short story writer, Anu Kumar is counted as one of the top women writers in Southeast Asia. Living in Singapore, Kumar confesses that she feels she never left Mumbai. Her love for the city is obvious in her work. She recently participated at the Asian Festival of Children’s Content, Singapore where she held a session for authors and publishers on how to write a series for children.

Asia and the book revoluation: Visitors walk past rows of bookshelves at Singapore’s National Library. It is fives times larger than the old premises and allows the National Library to bring out its collection of more than 6,34,000 items including seven levels of reference materials on Southeast Asia stored in print and digital formats for visitors. The building cost $(US)120 million to build. Pic/AFP