Meet The Writer
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‘I stopped at an essential ambiguity’: How Sharmistha Mohanty wrote ‘Book One’ thirty years ago
‘Art is a process, not a product. A book is only the ending of a process perhaps, for the time being, a process which will continue through another work.’
Sayari Debnath
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‘I want to connect culture, people, food in one sentence’: Restauranteur and food writer Asma Khan
‘To eat is a privilege, but just because you’re poor, a refugee, or in a war zone doesn’t mean that you are someone without the right to feel satisfied.’
Shree Thaarshini Sriraman & Vighnesh Hampapura
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‘The story tells me to stop. Its shape is within it’: Writer Jayant Kaikini
An interview with the Kannada writer, poet, and playwright whose latest book ‘Mithun Number Two’ has been translated into English by Tejaswini Niranjana.
Amrita Dutta
Trending
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The real reason why Modi says what he does – Hindu India accepts it
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BJP’s street-fighters in coastal Karnataka want a share in power
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For better or for worse? Shifts in gender norms in India – in 12 charts
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‘Supporter of BJP met me’: Surat candidates on the various reasons they withdrew from the election
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Lok Sabha polls: Ladakh MP rallies supporters after BJP drops him from candidate list
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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
Video
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Watch: K-Pop singer Aoora sings in Assamese as he collaborates with Nilotpal Bora in a new folk song
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Watch Anu Malik and Sonu Nigam’s impromptu performance of ‘Main Hoon Na’ at Farah Khan’s home
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Watch: Doordarshan newsreader faints on live TV in Kolkata owing to severe heat
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Watch: Spice Girls sing ‘Stop’ as bandmates reunite to celebrate Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday
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Watch: Over 350 ballerinas come together to break the world record for standing on tip toes
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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
The Reel
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Watch: In ‘The Big Cigar’, the Black Panther founder flees America through a fake movie
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‘Dil Dosti Dilemma’ review: A feelgood entertainer about young love and old ties
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In ‘Tahader Katha’, the many partitions endured by a freedom fighter
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Watch: Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ trailer
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Start the week with a film: A legend returns in ‘Bob Marley: One Love’
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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 Field
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Watch, highlights ISL 2023-24: Mumbai City win dramatic semi-final first leg against FC Goa
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Athletics, Asian U20 C’ships: India clinch medals in men’s javelin, discus and 1500m on opening day
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Boundaries and impact: The imbalance in IPL 2024 shows it is not a good time to be a bowler
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IPL 2024: Delhi Capitals hold their nerve to beat Gujarat Titans in a high-scoring thriller
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Boxing: Preeti to headline India’s 50-member squad for Asian U-22 & Youth Boxing Championship