Writer Kiran Nagarkar, who died September 5 , 2019, was one of India's finest writers.

By Mark Thomas
September 14 2019 - 5:00am

Nobody has stipulated that writers should be kind and decent people, let alone gentle and gracious ones. Writing, after all, is a solitary and selfish pursuit. Those few authors who have embodied compelling human virtues (Anton Chekhov, say, or Denis Diderot) were rare exceptions. So, too, was my friend, Kiran Nagarkar.

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