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Suketu Mehta

Suketu Mehta: ‘As goes India, so goes democracy’

To mark India’s 75th Independence Day, PEN America asked authors from India and the Indian diaspora to write short texts expressing what they felt.

Suketu Mehta
· Aug 15, 2022 · 11:00 am
Around the world, there’s a battle of storytelling about migrants and Muslims. Populists are winning

Because it’s a contest of storytelling, the sworn enemies of the populists are people like me: writers and journalists. Truth tellers, writes Suketu Mehta.

Suketu Mehta
· Oct 20, 2019 · 06:30 am
Kannada writer Ananthamurthy loved whiskey and a good argument

A former student pays tribute to the towering writer who passed away on Friday, aged 81.

Suketu Mehta
· Aug 23, 2014 · 07:46 am