interview
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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
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‘History is about people, egos, personality clashes, little jealousies’: Biographer Narayani Basu
Diya Isha
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‘Cultural superiority and exclusiveness located in its urbanity’: What makes Srinagar special
Shakir Mir
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‘What is going on in India and the US got me interested in writing about nationalism’: Kiran Desai
Chintan Girish Modi
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‘I remain a sceptic despite the occurrences around me’: Sanjoy K Roy on his book on ghosts
Neha Kirpal
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‘I wanted to write with feeling, but without sentimentality’: Anuradha Roy on her Himalaya memoir
Neha Kirpal
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‘The Indian youth needs to know there is no shame in setting boundaries’: Sex educator Seema Anand
Rush Mukherjee
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‘More about psychological and social challenges now’: Author Bharti Kirchner on diaspora writing
Anu Kumar
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‘Writing is a way for me to be in the deepest conversation with myself’: Author Sonora Jha
Jayanth Kodkani
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‘A contemporary global conversation’: A Hyderabad publisher is translating world fiction into Telugu
Harshaneeyam
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‘The London Consensus’: Can this new economic consensus change the world?
Rishi Majumder
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‘He embodied promises and limitations of technocracy’: Aparajith Ramnath on M Visvesvaraya’s legacy
Sayari Debnath
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‘Urban wandering is central to my writing and how I live’: Debut novelist and editor Sayantan Ghosh
Abdullah Khan
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‘The feelings are more autobiographical than the setting’: Aria Aber on her novel ‘Good Girl’
Chaitanya Srivastava
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‘He pulls everything that’s floating closer to the centre’: Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt
Muddasir Ramzan