Meet The Writer
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‘A fair amount of detective work’: How Manu Bhagavan wrote Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit’s biography
‘I considered the views of friends and foes alike. I chased leads wherever they took me – and that meant I had to sometimes double back from dead ends.’
Sayari Debnath
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‘The author must obsessively exile or exorcise themselves from the novel’: Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari
‘I had to learn everything from scratch, for long and alone, and since I was a Malayalam medium student, this ‘everything’ included the English language, too.’
Sayari Debnath
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‘I was testing the boundaries of motherhood and its impact on creative life’: Writer Bee Rowlatt
An interview with the author of ‘Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad’ and ‘In Search of May’.
Vighnesh Hampapura & Shree Thaarshini Sriraman
Trending
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When an emperor came calling on a newly independent India to learn from its early successes
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Kotak firm’s Rs 60 crore donation to BJP coincided with crucial RBI decisions on Kotak Mahindra Bank
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Bharti group’s Rs 150 crore bond donation to BJP coincided with Modi government’s telecom U-turn
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‘The Goat Life’ review: A protracted saga of suffering and survival
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How the high demand for coaching classes reflects India’s employment and economic distress
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‘Freedom fighters were not necessarily caste equality champions’: Writer Manoj Mitta
An interview with Manoj Mitta, author of ‘Caste Pride: Battles for Equality in Hindu India’.
Saurabh Sharma
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‘Prophet Song is a lament for what we are and what we do’: Paul Lynch, 2023 Booker Prize winner
‘You write to write the best book that meets your particular requirements for storytelling and your ideas about what art should be.’
Sayari Debnath
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‘I am not a linear writer. If it’s a 300-page novel, I am not writing it sequentially’: Benyamin
An interview with the 2009 Kerala Sahitya Akademi and 2018 JCB Prize for Literature winner Benyamin.
Diya Isha
Video
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Watch: PTI posts video accusing male ANI reporter of assaulting and abusing its woman journalist
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Watch: Footballers give their jackets to young player escorts amidst heavy rain in New York City
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Caught on camera: Supermarket floor collapses, shopper falls through it
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‘Look at my wonderful costume’: Actor Anne Hathaway reacts to scenes from some of her popular movies
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Watch: Chef makes life-sized pencil and sharpener entirely from chocolate
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‘Sheikh Abdullah’s story shows fraught centre-state relations’: Historian Chitralekha Zutshi
An interview with the author of Sheikh Abdullah’s biography, ‘The Caged Lion of Kashmir’.
R Benedito Ferrão
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‘Essential to ignore political correctness when writing’: French-language writer Shumona Sinha
An interview with the author of ‘Down With the Poor’.
Sayari Debnath
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‘I’d like to write only my best novels’: 2023 International Booker Prize winner Georgi Gospodinov
An interview with the author of the Bulgarian novel translated into English as ‘Time Shelter’.
Sayari Debnath
The Reel
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‘Amar Singh Chamkila’ trailer: Diljit Dosanjh plays the slain Punjabi singer in Imtiaz Ali’s biopic
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Premiere date announced for Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Heeramandi’
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‘The Goat Life’ review: A protracted saga of suffering and survival
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The secret ingredient of Pratik Gandhi’s success: ‘Salt to taste’
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‘Bade Miyan Chote Miyan’ trailer: Akshay Kumar and Tiger Shroff team up for action thriller
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‘I am a profoundly profane writer’: Hernan Diaz, 2023 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction
‘I’m very much militantly against the intrusion of the sacred in literature and art. I think art is a secular space. It’s a space of doubt.’
Sayari Debnath
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‘To ignore what cannot be grasped with reason is sheer stupidity’: CliFi writer Rajat Chaudhuri
An interview with Rajat Chaudhuri about his latest novel, ‘Spellcasters’.
Suvasree Karanjai
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‘Literature saved my life. Writing gave me purpose’: Poet, writer, and queer activist Aditya Tiwari
‘I wanted young kids, especially queer kids, to not feel like they are alone or do not belong in this world because growing up in Jabalpur I felt that way.’
Scroll Staff
The Field
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IPL 2024: Riyan Parag, bowlers set up win for Rajasthan Royals against Delhi Capitals
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IPL 2024: KKR bring in Allah Ghazanfar as replacement player; RR rope in Keshav Maharaj
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Athletics: Neeraj Chopra to open his 2024 season at Doha Diamond League in May
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Badminton, Spain Masters Super 300: PV Sindhu wins opening match; Indian men’s singles campaign ends
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Captain’s log: The Indian Premier League has become a grooming ground for new captains