Why be a writer if you are not going to use your most powerful weapons, which are words?

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli

· May 19, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘India is fighting for her soul’: Arundhati Roy on fascism, Modi and being a writer in today’s world

Arundhati Roy

· May 18, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Writing badly is easy. Novelist Amitava Kumar has some alternative suggestions in a new book

Amitava Kumar

· Mar 29, 2019 · 08:30 am

At the end of the day, how do you avoid clichés? It’s all about thinking outside the box

Nana Ariel, Aeon

· Mar 11, 2019 · 11:30 pm

‘The Sadeian Woman’: How Angela Carter empowered her readers to embrace sexual liberation

Marine Furet, The Conversation

· Jan 08, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘No Nation for Women’ flows with haunting lyricism born of pain, suffering and violation

Saikat Majumdar

· Dec 29, 2018 · 07:30 am

Can writing about trauma and violence actually help in healing? Some writers have tried it

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Dec 15, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Why have writers become more important than their work in the English-language literary world?

Amit Chaudhuri

· Nov 13, 2018 · 08:30 am

Unsolicited advice to writers: Why you should learn to love the full stop.

Joe Moran, The Conversation

· Oct 18, 2018 · 05:30 pm

No, dear writer, don’t be a helicopter parent to your book (and don’t tell us how the baby was made)

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli

· Oct 07, 2018 · 05:30 pm

I’m talking to you: Are second-person narratives in literature effective?

James Peacock, The Conversation

· Oct 01, 2018 · 05:30 pm

How to be a writer: Why everyone should learn to write their own messy stories

Sayantani Dasgupta

· Jul 21, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Meet Aqui Thami from Darjeeling, whose travelling library is putting the spotlight on women’s books

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Apr 27, 2018 · 08:30 am

The poet as architect: How poems are designed and constructed to convey the sense of space

Sumana Roy

· Mar 11, 2018 · 10:30 am

You’re prepared for the agonising writing of your first book, but nobody warns you about the second

Tashan Mehta

· Feb 10, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Embracing your complicated family and four other lessons on fiction writing from Amy Tan

Harsimran Gill

· Feb 06, 2018 · 08:30 am

Inside Sangam House: A poet offers a glimpse into India’s only funded residency for writers

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Jan 11, 2018 · 08:30 am

Other Colours

Scroll Staff

· Jan 01, 2018 · 01:35 pm

Publishers insist writers stick to one genre. But what if they don’t want to be a ‘genre author’?

Kiran Manral

· Dec 17, 2017 · 05:30 pm

Memo to writers: Will you let a computer co-author your next novel?

Leah Henrickson, The Conversation

· Oct 04, 2017 · 05:30 pm