 [Malladi] was a child in Bhopal when the disaster happened and wasn't affected because her house was upwind of the Carbide factory.The victims of the accident now total 14,000, a number Malladi humanizes by keeping her story intimate.As to how Malladi came up with the title and names of the characters from "The Mango Season", she said in an interview that unless she has a title of the book she is writing, she cannot move on.