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There's an interview with Suketu Mehtain the Columbia Journalism Review. (The interviewer, Carl Bromley, was kind enough to send me the link.)

Mehta is, as many readers are undoubtedly aware, the author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, which I've talked about a bunch of times on this blog.

Highlights of the interview include Mehta's discussion of the value of doing interviews with a laptop, rather than a tape recorder, as well as his discussion of what drew him to all these Bombay tough guys to begin with.

Here's the bit about laptops, and keeping his interviewees on point:

So initially they’d be much more hesitant than if I had put a tape recorder in front of them.

But then I noticed this subliminal thing started happening where as they spoke, I was literally typing. My fingers were dancing, and they would look at me and pick up these cues from when I’m typing or not. Now, in India the problem isn’t getting people to talk, it’s getting them to shut up or to stick t