You began writing the first draft of Girl in White Cotton (HarperCollins India) in 2013 as part of the Tibor Jones Prize. Did you think about the expectations attached to a first novel? 

I've actually thought of myself as an outsider in the literary community. I started out in the art world and came to fiction writing later. So, I didn't have a lot of the pressure that someone in the literary world would've experienced; there weren't that many people asking me about my debut.