The book has gone on to occupy a distinctive — and deserving — place in an emerging genre of Bombay noir. “The Mountain Shadow”, Roberts’s second novel, appears more than a decade later.

The grieving was so fierce that I had to cover his pictures on my character ... and I'm putting together a pretty crazy e-book for The Mountain Shadow. Q. Why did you choose to write novels ...

IT’S BEEN a long time coming. Gregory David Roberts’ best-selling book Shantaram, which was about Mumbai and its underbelly, was published in 2003. It brought a lot of fame to Roberts, who had ...