Meet The Writer
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‘Knowing we’re mortal gives us purpose’: Nobel laureate Venki Ramakrishnan on his new book
An interview with Venki Ramakrishnan about his new book ‘Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and the Quest for Immortality’.
Scroll Staff
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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
Trending
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‘Knowing we’re mortal gives us purpose’: Nobel laureate Venki Ramakrishnan on his new book
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‘We are living in perpetual fear’: Prajwal Revanna video leaks spark panic among women in Hassan
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In Amit Shah’s Gandhinagar, three Lok Sabha candidates allege they faced pressure to withdraw
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‘Exhuma’ review: A grave holds secrets to a troubled Korean past
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What explains reports of infighting within the BJP during the elections?
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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
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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
Video
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Eco India, Episode 259: How future-proof innovations can revolutionize the way we protect nature
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Video: What will it take to bring back peace to Manipur?
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‘Physical building of WhatsApp University’: Satire on viral video of Galgotias University students
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Watch: Meet Sparkles, the new avatar of Boston Dynamics’ robot dog with a special costume
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Watch: Diljit Dosanjh invites young fan on stage, dances with him during his sold-out Vancouver show
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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
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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
The Reel
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‘Presumed Innocent’ trailer: Jake Gyllenhaal plays a lawyer accused of murdering his lover
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‘Lampan’ trailer: Marathi series is based on Prakash Narayan Sant’s stories
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Watch: ‘Murder in Mahim’ series is based on Jerry Pinto’s crime novel
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‘Women Of My Billion’ review: What happens when women get talking
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‘The Broken News’ S2 review: A competent second round of TV channel rivalry
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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
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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
The Field
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Boxing, Asian U22 & Youth C’ships: Akash, Vishvanath, Nikhil and Preet reach men’s finals
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ISL 2024 final, Mohun Bagan Super Giant vs Mumbai City, live: Both teams level on 1-1 in second half
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Hockey: Rohit to lead 20-member Indian junior team in five-match tour of Europe
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IPL 2024: Kolkata beat Mumbai in a thriller at Wankhede for the first time in 12 years
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Boxing, Asian U22 & Youth C’ships: Brijesh, Aryan and five other Indians enter finals