When an editor turns novelist, he brings with him the experience of years spent shaping other people’s sentences and the uneasy thrill of facing his own. Sayantan Ghosh, Editorial Director at Simon and Schuster India, makes this transition with measured assurance in his debut novel Lonely People Meet (Bloomsbury India, 2025).

Set in Delhi, the novel begins as a tender love story and slowly becomes a meditation on memory, illusion, and the fragile threads that hold people together. Ghosh’s writings have appeared in Electric Literature , Litro Magazine , The Telegraph , and The Hindu Business Line . In 2023, he was judged Editor of the Year at the Publishing Next Industry Awards .

In a conversation with Scroll , Ghosh reflected on his journey from editor to storyteller, dis

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