Published : Jul 01, 2026 09:00 IST - 11 MINS READ The modern workplace is one of the few spaces where average Indians get to encounter people who are not like them: people who speak other languages and hail from different social backgrounds. | Photo Credit: Getty Images For the better part of the last 20 years, I have been a judge for a fiction writing contest at a law school in India. They always invite me to preside, if you will, over a semifinal round of sorts.