Meet The Writer
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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
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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
Trending
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‘Saffronisation of Doordarshan’: After DD News unveils new logo, social media users express alarm
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Husna Bai: The tawaif who made Hindustani music a respectable profession for women artists
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Carnatic music: Violinist L Subramaniam’s new book looks at the 18th-century masters
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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Is the 2024 Lok Sabha election India’s last chance before the point of no return?
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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
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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
Video
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Watch: Mount Ruang erupts in Indonesia, spewing columns of ash and lava
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Watch: Unbelievable scenes of flooding in Dubai airport, streets, and malls after heavy rain in UAE
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Indian elections: How secure is the EVM-VVPAT process?
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Watch: Footballers of Indian clubs walk out on the pitch with dogs to get them adopted
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Watch: Dogs wag their tails to ‘conduct’ classical music orchestra
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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
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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
The Reel
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‘Trap’ trailer: M Night Shyamalan’s thriller stars Josh Hartnett as a serial killer
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Watch: Five directors shoot on iPhones for MAMI Mumbai Film Festival initiative
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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‘Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2’ review: Laboured and barely provocative
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‘Civil War’ review: An urgent film about a barely-distant future
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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
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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
The Field
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Shooting, Indian Olympic trials: Esha Singh, Bhavesh Shekhawat lead in respective 25m pistol events
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Wrestling, Asian Olympic Qualifiers: Deepak Punia, Sujeet Kalkal fail to make weigh-ins in time
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Chess, Candidates 2024: Gukesh Dommaraju picks up win to become joint-leader with two rounds to go
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Hockey: Salima Tete 2.0 – a speedster who is adding confidence and creativity to her improving game
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IPL 2024: Suryakumar, bowlers help Mumbai Indians seal thriller against Punjab Kings