Akhil Sharma

Akhil Sharma joins us to discuss his new collection of short stories "A Life of Adventure and Delight," eight stories that focus on Indian protagonists at home and abroad. 

The author of Family Life, the Leonard Lopate Show Book Club's June selection, shared some of the books and authors he loves to read again and again.

The author says the tension between light and dark themes in his book was deliberate.

In the weeks since a young woman was brutally gang-raped and left for dead in streets of New Delhi, India, a global conversation has emerged over gender roles in India, the United Sta...