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Report: Ubud Writers & Readers Festival

India, Jan. 30 -- I missed the start of the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, held from 29 October to 2 November 2025, thanks to an impromptu plan with fellow speakers. While the crowds were walking in... Read More


Harini Nagendra: "I didn't come up with the character; she came to me"

India, Jan. 22 -- You've been working on Kaveri, the main character of the Bangalore Detectives Club series, for over 15 years. How did Kaveri first come into your mind? Much longer than 15 years, ac... Read More


Review: The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown

India, Jan. 14 -- Dan Brown is no stranger to best seller lists, blockbuster movie adaptations and cultural publishing moments. For more than two decades, his work has defined the fast-paced thriller ... Read More


'Daily life is deeply important'

India, Jan. 3 -- 1Both The Anthropologists and Long Distance are preoccupied with observation. What draws you to the idea of perception as both connection and distance? I think, for many writers, one ... Read More


HT reviewer Rutvik Bhandari picks his favourite read of 2025

India, Dec. 19 -- I read Anxious People in January 2025, on a day where allergies left me feeling like a lone soldier stuck in a high battlement facing an entire troop. After being unable to focus on ... Read More


Omar El Akkad: "I write about things that make me angry"

India, Nov. 29 -- Congratulations on the success of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. The title feels both prophetic and resigned. How did you arrive at it? I never really used to... Read More


'I write about the things that make me angry'

India, Nov. 29 -- 1Congratulations on the success of One Day... The title feels both prophetic and resigned. How did you arrive at it? I never really used to post online - I feel short form is not my ... Read More


'Life isn't solely a matter of individual will and agency'

India, Nov. 15 -- The novel seems to suggest that the body is both the one thing we truly own, and the one thing that betrays us most. Was that the paradox you wanted to examine - the body as both hom... Read More


"Life isn't solely a matter of individual will and agency"

India, Nov. 15 -- You've mentioned that Flesh was not the intended title of the book initially; it was just a placeholder of sorts. What made you stick with it as the final title? As you say, it was ... Read More


Book to screen: From Shy to Steve

India, Nov. 6 -- Max Porter's Shy was never an easy book to adapt. Its pages thrummed with noise - an unfamiliar rhythm of self-interruption - the inside of a young man's fractured mind, which is tune... Read More