interview
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‘I write novels of ideas, but the ideas have to be lived by characters’: Author Sanjena Sathian
Rohit Chakraborty
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‘Myth is a carrier of history, trauma, resistance’: Subi Taba on writing about Arunachal Pradesh
Anannya Nath
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‘Silences reveal as much as noise’: Malaysian writer Tash Aw on his new coming-of-age novel
Chaitanya Srivastava
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‘Women can be complicit in systems of violence, especially in families’: Writer Sophie Mackintosh
Diya Isha
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‘The idea that KB Hedgewar was an ultra-Hindu is patently false’: Biographer Sachin Nandha
Majid Maqbool
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‘To be an artist or a writer, you have to be in the business of serious noticing’: Amitava Kumar
Sayari Debnath
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‘Not ethical questions, but aesthetic ones’: What’s on Keshava Guha’s mind while crafting a novel
Chaitanya Srivastava
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‘Literature gives you something history can’t’: Editor Mini Krishnan on classic Indian stories
Mahika Dhar
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‘A permanent campaign machine’: How the professionalisation of politics has changed India after 2014
Majid Maqbool
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‘The inner emotions of legal practice serve as raw, real-life material for my writing’: Banu Mushtaq
Sayari Debnath
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‘We all look up at the same sky’: Jordan Quill, author of a children’s book on the magic of Tibet
Ipshita Mitra
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‘It would be a mistake to think that hyper-technological people don’t live by stories’: Amitav Ghosh
Ashutosh Kumar Thakur
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‘Restraint, clarity, respect for the story’: Devangana Dash’s philosophy for designing book covers
Sayari Debnath
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‘A treasure hunt about the past’: Writer Johana Gustawsson on what makes crime fiction so popular
Diya Isha
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Interview: Do away with governors, says Kerala MP who moved bill to limit Raj Bhawan powers
Anant Gupta
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‘With an accent’: How Deepa Bhasthi translated International Booker Prize-shortlisted ‘Heart Lamp’
Sayari Debnath
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Interview: Trump’s tariffs not waqf needed urgent attention, argues this communist MP
Anant Gupta
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‘What is in life cannot be ignored in books’: Duckbill editor Sayoni Basu on publishing for children
Sayari Debnath
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‘The structures of capitalism do not automatically help a democracy’: Political activist Tariq Ali
Manaswini Sen
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‘You can express feelings and sensations in black and white’: Graphic novelist Zeina Abirached
Diya Isha