Welcome to the reunion! After a wildly-delayed studio recording, Supriya and Deepanjana catch up to discuss their reading highlights from 2025. It was an unusually brilliant year for Indian fiction in English, diving into powerful examinations of deep familial ties and modern loneliness. The Lit Pickers exchange notes on Arundhati Roy’s dazzling “Mother Mary Comes to Me”, Jeet Thayil’s genre-blurring “The Elsewhereians”, Rahul Bhattacharya's masterful “Railsong” and its nuanced portrayal of working women navigating freedom, and much more.

 

Read Supriya’s brilliant review of “Mother Mary Comes to Me” here. 

 

If you miss us before then, please dive into our archive, or reach out to us on @supriyanair and @dpanjana on Instagram. 

 

If you have any books, reading or literature-related questions, please email us at contact@maed.in. 

 

For a list of all the books mentioned in the season so far, check out this link

 

This is a Maed In India Production; check us out at www.maedinindia.in. 

Creative Director: Mae Mariyam Thomas

Project Manager: Shaun Fanthome

Head of Audio: Kartik Kulkarni

Sound Editor: Nihar Temkar

Artwork: Alika Gupta


Theme Music: Easy Wanderlings - Here’s to You

Welcome to the reunion! After a wildly-delayed studio recording, Supriya and Deepanjana catch up to discuss their reading highlights from 2025. It was an unusually brilliant year for Indian fiction in English, diving into powerful examinations of deep familial ties and modern loneliness. The Lit Pickers exchange notes on Arundhati Roy&rsquo;s dazzling &ldquo;Mother Mary Comes to Me&rdquo;, Jeet Thayil&rsquo;s genre-blurring &ldquo;The Elsewhereians&rdquo;, Rahul Bhattacharya's masterful &ldquo;Railsong&rdquo; and its nuanced portrayal of working women navigating freedom, and much more.
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Read Supriya&rsquo;s brilliant review of &ldquo;Mother Mary Comes to Me&rdquo; <a href="https://www.himalmag.com/politics/arundhati-roy-mother-mary-memoir">here</a>.&nbsp;
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If you miss us before then, please dive into our archive, or reach out to us on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/supriyanair/">@supriyanair</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dpanjana/">@dpanjana</a> on Instagram.&nbsp;
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If you have any books, reading or literature-related questions, please email us at <a href="mailto:contact@maed.in">contact@maed.in</a>.&nbsp;
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For a list of all the books mentioned in the season so far, check out this <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LpXFqHm2AcvzDJLEHK5LQNqoVlNqNGTT_tA6paaQITs/edit?gid=1300752686#gid=1300752686">link</a>
&nbsp;
This is a Maed In India Production; check us out at <a href="http://www.maedinindia.in">www.maedinindia.in</a>.&nbsp;
Creative Director: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/maemariyam/?hl=en">Mae Mariyam Thomas</a>
Project Manager: <a href="http://www.instagram.com/sfanthome">Shaun Fanthome</a>
Head of Audio: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/kartik.kulkarni/?hl=en">Kartik Kulkarni</a>
Sound Editor: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nihartemkar/">Nihar Temkar</a>
Artwork: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/capefoxalix/">Alika Gupta</a>
 Theme Music: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/easywanderlings/">Easy Wanderlings</a> - <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/51JjvILdVpKgukwc8xaav7?si=54abcd02ffda43f7">Here&rsquo;s to You</a>

The Lit Pickers is a podcast that celebrates books and bold opinions. Hosted by writers Supriya Nair and Deepanjana Pal, each episode explores literature, authors and reading. The show champions the written word, as well as the biggest ideas, tiniest thoughts, silliest questions, and confounding conundrums. Nair and Pal invite you to their Sunday breakfast table banter, that makes for truly lively commentary for readers and thinkers, and awaken the bookworm in you. So, pop the kettle on, grab a biscuit and listen, as your reading list gets longer and longer.