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Charu Nivedita talks to Rakesh Khanna

Zero Degree: Breaking boundaries in life and fiction

Kerala 2010, 
Charu Nivedita’s novel Zero Degree, written in Tamil in 1998 and later translated into Malayalam and English, is chock-full of foul language, graphic sex, and extreme violence. He talks with Blaft Publications’ co-founder Rakesh Khanna about Zero Degree, his other novels, translations of experimental literature to and from Tamil, censorship, and the burgeoning Tamil blogosphere.