Mumbai author Lindsay Pereira on the fractures of migration in his latest novel, Super

Mumbai-based author Lindsay Pereira gravitates towards marginalised communities of society; he says, “I empathise with them more”. He graduated from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, and holds a PhD in Literature for his work on gender attitudes implicit in 19th-Century Indian fiction from the University of Mumbai.

It is the sort of academic detail that feels subtly operative in shaping a fiction that is attentive to subtext, and omission. In his latest novel, Super (published by HarperCollins India), the canvas expands.What expands with it is not just geography, but the scale of inquiry. Lindsay moves beyond the contained worlds of his earlier work into a terrain that is both widely familiar and insufficiently examined — the steady outflow of young Indians chasing the promise of stability elsewhere. The novel draws from a sharply escalating reality, one that Lindsay himself grounds in data and observation, yet it resists turning that reality into a fixed argument. Instead, it lingers on the motivations that precede departure and the quieter reckonings that follow it.