[7] She was the Executive Editor for ElseVR channel, India's first virtual reality (VR) journalism platform co-created by filmmaker and producer Anand Gandhi.

[14] In an interview published in The Hindu, she mentioned that it took her seven years to write the novel, and that her training as a journalist taught her ‘the value of deadlines, and sticking to them in the face of uncertainty.’.

Winner of the Émile Guimet Prize for Asian Literature, the jury observed that the novel has invented a genre in itself: the fiction of nature.

[30] For Latitudes of Longing, she received the following awards and nominations - Discussing her literary influences in an interview with Prakruti Maniar,[41] Swarup cited Naguib Mahfouz and A.K.

Ramanujan, specifically his short story collection A Flowering Tree for narrative style, as well as Haruki Murakami, Gabriel García Márquez and Maria Dermoût's The Ten Thousand Things, and other Japanese, Spanish and African literature.