Manasi Subramaniam is editor-in-chief and vice president at Penguin Random House India, where she leads the company's literary publishing program across iconic imprints including Penguin, Hamish Hamilton, Viking, Allen Lane and Penguin Classics. She has published winners of the Booker, Pulitzer and Sahitya Akademi prizes, as well as several laureates and finalists of global awards including the Nobel Prize, Women's Prize, National Book Awards, JCB Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal and Folio Prize. Her list includes Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie, Perumal Murugan, Shehan Karunatilaka, Geetanjali Shree and others. She was a 2022 Yale World Fellow, a 2023 Raisina Young Fellow and a 2023 Fisher Family Summer Fellow at Stanford, and in…