Goodreads asked Debraj Bhattacharya:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Debraj Bhattacharya Tales from the Margin is a collection of short stories based in the city of Kolkata. I have written these stories over nearly a decade. The book emerged as I kept writing stories. I did not start with a definite plan. There were some influences - James Joyce's Dubliners, Moravia's Roman Tales, the short story collections of Satyajit Ray. There were also films like Paris je t'aime and New York I love you.

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