Nilanjana Roy is the author of The Wildings (Aleph Book Company, 2012) and The Hundred Names of Darkness (Aleph Book Company, to be published in November 2013). She is a contributing opinion writer for the International New York Times, and she writes about books for the Business Standard, but mostly, she reads. And cooks, a little. She lives in Delhi with her husband; they are jointly owned by two demanding cats and it is a distinct possibility that they jointly own too many books.