‘I had a gut feeling 2014 was a pivot’: Novelist Devika Rege, author of ‘Quarterlife’

‘There was material from earlier work that fed into it, and events in the time afterwards that clarified the ways in which 2014 was pregnant with 2019, 2024.’

AN Phiroze

· Sep 16, 2023 · 11:30 am

‘One of the great 20th Century experiments’: Historian Nikhil Menon on India’s central plans

An interview with the author of ‘Planning Democracy: How a Professor, an Institute and an Idea Shaped India.’

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Aug 06, 2023 · 07:30 am

‘Death was a constant motif in his music’: Jupinderjit Singh, author of ‘Who Killed Moosewala?’

‘Moosewala’s murder could have been prevented had the system intervened’, said Singh. Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala was killed on May 29, 2022. He was 29.

Saurabh Sharma

· Jul 30, 2023 · 07:30 am

‘In my novel, caste is the co-protagonist’: Ujjal Dosanjh, author of ‘The Past is Never Dead’

‘So far there seems to be nothing other than a bare-knuckle nonviolent fight against caste.’

Sayari Debnath

· Jun 04, 2023 · 08:30 am

‘I’d prefer a just world where my novels have no relevance beyond questions of art’: Siddhartha Deb

‘I’m drawn to vulnerable, marginal characters,’ says the author of ‘The Light at the End of the World’.

Amrita Dutta

· Jun 03, 2023 · 08:30 am

‘Human artists should create art that has only sparsely existed before’: Writer Karan Madhok

‘I think if one’s work is original enough – and resists being derivative as much as possible – then there is no need to fear AI-based software.’

Saurabh Sharma

· May 27, 2023 · 08:30 am

‘I can’t write about anything else except Pondicherry’: Ari Gautier, author of ‘The Thinnai’

‘I wanted to move away from the exotica narrative of colonial writings to bring something new, something fresh through the Franco-Pondicherrian perspective.’

Astri Ghosh

· May 21, 2023 · 01:30 pm

‘We’re not equipping young people with the evolved skills needed for new jobs’: Avik Chanda

‘We’re still woefully inadequate in inculcating behavioural or human-centric skills,’ says the co-author of ‘Work 3.0’.

Tirthankar Roy

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Krishnan Srinivasan

· May 20, 2023 · 07:30 am

‘Pakistan’s erasure of the 1971 Liberation War from conversations is dangerous’: Author Aamina Ahmad

‘Nations often don’t want to confront troubling histories but it strikes me as imperative that we do.’

Sayari Debnath

· May 14, 2023 · 07:30 am

‘I don’t think we should write stories being fearful of how they will be received’: Nilanjana S Roy

‘I find it baffling when people look away – whether they are looking away from stray dogs or the kind of lives children have. Where did we learn to look away?’

Sharmistha Jha

· May 07, 2023 · 12:30 pm

‘As a writer I’m apolitical and spiritually free. That is how I’d like to retain myself’: Jeyamohan

‘I believe a writer should never take a single political or ideological stand. If a writer takes a political stand for any reason, it will corrupt his ethics.’

Priyamvada Ramkumar

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Suchitra Ramachandran

· Apr 23, 2023 · 10:22 am

‘The challenge was to produce a language, not just use what is accepted as correct’: Sundar Sarukkai

‘So did I write the novel to make philosophy more accessible? No. That was not the reason at all.’

Sanchit Toor

· Apr 22, 2023 · 07:30 am