Should have, could have, can

At the end of a session with bookstore owners at the Bangalore Literature Festival last month, nearly everyone in the audience raised a hand when the moderator asked, "Who wants to own a bookstore?"

- SHALINI UMACHANDRAN

To be surrounded by stories, real and fictional, seems to be the stuff of everybody's dreams. That's something we can all relate to at Lounge, and so, it doesn't seem an indulgence to us to devote the first issue of the year entirely to fiction.