interview
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‘Making procedures visible helps clarify how historical interpretations are formed’: Romila Thapar
Abdullah Khan
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‘You must, in some sense, go mad with literature’: Writer Vivek Shanbhag
Parul Sehgal
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‘Commercial and genre fiction in Indian languages shouldn’t be overlooked’: Translator Poonam Saxena
Ashutosh Kumar Thakur
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‘The more equal a space, the more we see civilised behaviour’: Shinjini Kumar, author, ‘Busy Women’
Amritesh Mukherjee
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‘The ecological collapse is overwhelming, but observing something alive can counter it’: Neha Sinha
Pranavi Sharma
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‘The fundamental encounter between one soul and a new place hasn’t changed at all’: Writer Pico Iyer
Arunima Mazumdar
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‘The act of listening is part of the story’: Anurag Banerjee on his book on Meghalaya’s music scene
Diya Isha
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‘Masculinity is always at loggerheads between two men’: What Rahul Singh explores in his debut novel
Rush Mukherjee
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‘Jatra icon Chapal Bhaduri negotiated his sexuality without ever bothering about identity politics’
Rohit Chakraborty
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‘The project of Railsong is to excavate the somebodiness of everybody’: Author Rahul Bhattacharya
Sayari Debnath
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Interview: Could the spiritual leadership of the Muslim world have shifted towards India?
Mallik Thatipalli
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‘Glorification of couplehood skews honest conversations about love’: Writer Arundhati Ghosh
Diya Sengupta
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‘Secrets simmer, things get unhinged in the heat’: Bhavika Govil on her ‘summer’ novel, ‘Hot Water’
Sayari Debnath
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‘Prakrit is, like Sanskrit, a literary language’: Infosys Prize 2025 winner Andrew Ollett
Vighnesh Hampapura
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‘It is time to listen to the grasshoppers’: What non-humans can tell us about living sustainably
Amritesh Mukherjee
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‘I describe myself as a smuggler, border-crosser across languages’: Translator J Devika
Saurabh Sharma
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‘Consent, accountability’: What educator Tanisha Rao wants to be taught better during sex education
Rush Mukherjee
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‘Poetry is about truth, difference, and breaking form’: Debut poet Aranya Padil
Kunjana Parashar
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‘Women aren’t allowed to talk about their suffering:’ Anil Yadav on his novella about ‘courtesans’
Sharmistha Jha
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‘I write in blood, rooted in the soil where I belong’: Jnanpith Award winner Pratibha Ray
Saurabh Sharma