OGD is a kingdom. But it's also not, for it has no inside or outside. All the roads that lead to it, also lead you outside it. Here, a messiah is born with her foot in her mouth, which means that as her toenails grow, she'd have to eat them — thus, causing an infinite loop. If anything you read so far didn't make any sense, welcome to literary nonsense, a genre bestselling children's writer Anushka Ravishankar has explored for older readers in her latest title Ogd (Duckbill).There's no right way to read it, she tells us about the story that hops across math, monarchy, poetry and more. Edited excerpts from the interview.

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