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

'It isn’t autobiography, but it's a daughter’s book in every way': Madeleine Thien

The author talks about her extraordinary novel ‘Do Not Say We Have Nothing’.

Jaya Bhattacharji Rose

· Oct 29, 2016 · 10:00 am

It’s 25 years since ‘A Strange and Sublime Address’ opened the gate to Indian writers in English

Amit Chaudhuri, the author, looks back on his first novel in a conversation with novelist Saikat Majumdar.

Saikat Majumdar

· Sep 11, 2016 · 08:30 am

Growing out of the cocoon: Perumal Murugan is back to life as a writer

What the Tamil author told his readers after announcing his return to writing.

Perumal Murugan

· Aug 23, 2016 · 02:12 pm

Why do people seem so weary with literature? How do we rebuild the alphabet for writing?

A novelist muses on the market, reading, and the need for writers to do it differently.

Anjum Hasan

· Jul 31, 2016 · 08:30 am

'Now it’s the turn of memory to mock me': Mahasweta Devi on life, love, and liberation

Arguably India’s most fiery woman writer, who was as much an activist as she was an artist, gave this speech at the Jaipur Literature Festival.

Mahasweta Devi

· Jul 29, 2016 · 08:30 am

Boy meets girl, man rapes woman, and what it has to do with a writer’s imagination

The author explains how a real life incident formed the basis of her fiction. Plus: an excerpt from the novel.

Shilpi Somaya Gowda

· Feb 24, 2016 · 08:30 am

Why this young writer switched from campus romances to the Jarawas of Andamans

What does it take to shift a writer's attention from a successful commercial genre to fiction featuring an endangered tribe?

Sachin Garg

· Jan 10, 2016 · 07:30 pm

Why does Indian writing in English still have to defend itself against charges of siding with oppressors?

“There is a space for Indian writers who, working in English, are attempting to reach a specificity of experience.”

Amitabha Bagchi

· Dec 05, 2015 · 08:30 am

Why don’t we have more novels about art?

Writer Anjum Hasan offers the literary provenance of her latest novel, ‘The Cosmopolitans’.

Anjum Hasan

· Aug 22, 2015 · 03:30 pm

Crossword Prize and most rejections: Anees Salim on his novel ‘The Blind Lady’s Descendants’

‘My nephew had taken his life a while ago, but he had not left a suicide note, much unlike his namesake in the book.’

Anees Salim

· May 09, 2015 · 08:30 am