‘In these shitty times, your loving cripple’: Writer Hanif Kureishi’s notes from a hospital bed

After a sudden dangerous fall in Rome, Kureishi has dictated tweets from his hospital bed with updates on his health, ruminations about life, and more.

Scroll Staff

· Jan 13, 2023 · 08:30 am

‘Clarity is not the protocol of literature’: Geetanjali Shree on the writer’s responsibilities

‘Why is literature not given its due? Why is a writer not seen as someone very important for the running of society?’

Geetanjali Shree

· Jan 07, 2023 · 08:30 am

‘I heard sounds come from the water’: Sharanya Manivannan on the images in her new picture book

The picture book is titled ‘Mermaids In The Moonlight’, and the coming graphic novel for adults, ‘Incantations Over Water’.

Sharanya Manivannan

· Mar 21, 2021 · 12:30 pm

How a farmers’ march in 2018 entered Anita Agnihotri’s newly translated novel in real time

‘I am walking along with hundreds of other writers in the country.’

Anita Agnihotri

· Mar 09, 2021 · 08:30 am

How is a writer inspired to write by the scenes she sees and the conversations she overhears

Bilingual novelist and short story writer Anukrti Upadhyay talks about her creative catalysts.

Anukrti Upadhyay

· Nov 09, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Robert Clive reimagined: How to use the techniques of novel-writing for historical figures

The author of a ‘Fortune’s Soldier’, a new novel about Robert Clive, the founder of the British empire in India, explains how to meld facts with fiction.

Alex Rutherford

· Dec 22, 2018 · 10:30 am

Why novelist Sheena Kalayil does not like being boxed as a BAME writer

Broad labels like ‘black, asian and minority ethnic’ – or BAME – do no justice to each unique, individual writer, argues Kalyail.

Sheena Kalayil, The Conversation

· Aug 16, 2018 · 05:30 pm

‘Chattu’ and I: How Chetan Bhagat and I both started our (polar opposite) literary journeys from IIT

Novelist Amitabha Bagchi’s debut work of fiction was also set in IIT Delhi, just like his college senior Chetan Bhagat. But the similarities ended there.

Amitabha Bagchi

· Jul 07, 2018 · 08:30 am

Is the modern world too close for comfort to write about? Two recent books show how it is being done

Tabish Khair’s ‘Night of Happiness’ and Anjum Hasan’s ‘A Day in the Life’ plunge headlong into the unmanageable contemporary.

Saikat Majumdar

· Jun 09, 2018 · 07:15 am

‘My first short story, written at the age of 14, had an unhappy fate. But it rescued me.’

Writer Shazaf Fatima Haider recounts the scandalous beginning to her literary career.

Shazaf Fatima Haider

· May 30, 2018 · 05:30 pm

When a writer reads another, it can sometimes be love (and envy) at first sight

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar on the moving experience of reading Easterine Kiré’s new novel.

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar

· Jan 28, 2017 · 01:30 pm

‘I have to criticise religions that oppress women’: Taslima Nasrin at Jaipur Literature Festival

While the exiled Bangladeshi author questioned the presence of secularism in India, Muslim groups protested against her invitation to the event.

Scroll Staff

· Jan 24, 2017 · 11:19 am