Sunil Kumar comes from a life stitched together by ships, classrooms, airports, bus stops, as well as railway platforms, and an unreasonable number of books. Growing up in Bombay before it became Mumbai, he learned early that cities have memories, gods have a devious sense of humour, and people rarely say what they mean—but always reveal it anyway.

 

His writing spans fiction, memoir, and speculative thought, exploring themes of love, loss, myth, time, and the quiet violence of everyday life. He is interested in a passing stranger as he is in ancient ideas, and he enjoys placing them in the same frame to see what intrigues and what survives.

 

He writes not to explain the world, but to sit with its contradictions seriously, playfully, and sometimes dangerously close to the truth. If a piece lingers after you’ve finished reading it, he considers that a successful conversation and love’s labour consummated.