You will be launching the second edition of Engage Pocketful O' Stories 2.0, a book that features micro-tales on unexpected moments of love, submitted by readers, in Mumbai this evening. What was challenging about curating these stories?

We decided to make the submission criteria tougher than the last time and added two writing prompts — a supermarket and an aisle — so as to make our selection process easier. But we still ended up receiving more than 25,000 entries. The theme is pretty universal and when I'd read a piece, I would also try and guess the age of the writer, and was almost always wrong. A writer from Bangalore, for instance, had six of her stories selected. So we thought she must've been a well-established writer but turned out to be 16! It just goes to prove that you can't equate younger writers with immature writing and say that older ones lack excitement in their work.