A few years ago, author Paro Anand found herself in the company of an unlikely duo at a writing workshop in Goa. It's then that the team, comprising Swedish author Örjan Persson, illustrator Kaveri Gopalkrishnan and her, decided to collaborate on a novel. "But, we were all on different pages -- Orjan had only written for teenagers, Kaveri had only illustrated picture books for very young children, and I had done both. We were finding it daunting. Till one day, we all decided to go out on a boat."

Paro Anand