How is a writer inspired to write by the scenes she sees and the conversations she overhears

Anukrti Upadhyay

· Nov 09, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Can these great writers and thinkers help us understand the current political mess around the world?

Michael Hauskeller, The Conversation

· Oct 09, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘We do language. That may be the measure of our lives’: Toni Morrison’s Nobel Prize lecture

Toni Morrison

· Aug 07, 2019 · 08:00 am

On Franz Kafka’s 136th birth anniversary, he continues to show us how to fight for our freedom

Rohan Parikh

· Jul 03, 2019 · 07:00 pm

Watch: 2019 Women's Prize winner Tayari Jones on why it took her six years to complete her novel

Scroll Staff

· Jun 07, 2019 · 02:45 pm

Imagine the finest of Maria Popova’s ‘brain pickings’ in a single book. ‘Figuring’ is more than that

Urmi Chanda-Vaz

· May 04, 2019 · 08:30 am

Re-reading Bhuvaneshwar, the absurdist Hindi writer who lived in railway stations and trains

Saudamini Deo

· Mar 10, 2019 · 05:30 pm

What we can learn from reading Sylvia Plath’s copy of ‘The Great Gatsby’

Jeanne Britton, The Conversation

· Dec 18, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Reading list: India’s women writers who have been smashing patriarchy for generations

Urmi Chanda-Vaz

· Dec 01, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Novelist Shashi Deshpande on the difficulties of being a woman who writes (or, a ‘woman writer’)

Shashi Deshpande

· Nov 16, 2018 · 08:30 am

Why India needs a professional association for writers and translators (like in other countries)

Jenny Bhatt

· Nov 11, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Man Booker Prize 2018: When writers read their own work, does it cause pleasure or disappointment?

Martin Goodman, The Conversation

· Oct 25, 2018 · 06:30 pm

Before #MeToo, there was #BeCareful – and that applied to women who wanted to write books

K Srilata

· Oct 21, 2018 · 08:30 am

Dialogue: In the age of social media, how do writers avoid becoming hustlers?

Rheea Mukherjee Manjiri Indurkar

· Sep 15, 2018 · 08:30 am

Why novelist Sheena Kalayil does not like being boxed as a BAME writer

Sheena Kalayil, The Conversation

· Aug 16, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Ten writers talk of words they detest and prefer not to use (and of words they love)

Shashank Bhargava

· Aug 12, 2018 · 08:30 am

‘My first short story, written at the age of 14, had an unhappy fate. But it rescued me.’

Shazaf Fatima Haider

· May 30, 2018 · 05:30 pm

We love their books but these letters between writers and editors showcase a dying art form

Jenny Bhatt

· May 13, 2018 · 11:30 am

‘I’m channelling what I catch on the wind, not necessarily what I know first-hand’: Anjum Hasan

Neha Bhatt

· Apr 29, 2018 · 08:30 am

What women writers talk about when they talk to one another in the absence of men

Neha Bhatt

· Mar 24, 2018 · 08:30 am