'Most of us are not comfortable with our bodies'

India, Aug. 30 -- 1The South was conceived as an 800-page epic, but you felt writing a book like that was "hypermasculine". Such realisations often escape writers. How did you rethink the book as part... Read More

Tash Aw: "Most of us are not comfortable with our bodies"

India, Aug. 30 -- The South was originally conceived as an 800-page epic, but you felt something "hypermasculine about writing a book like that". In writing a novel that deals with a mix of celebrated... Read More

Revisiting Adolescence, the Netflix miniseries that's been nominated for 13 Emmys

India, Aug. 22 -- The Philip Barantini-directed four-part Netflix miniseries Adolescence unsettled audiences worldwide. In its first episode, the police storm into the home of a murder suspect. Viewer... Read More

Review: The South by Tash Aw

India, Aug. 21 -- In the introduction to Michel Foucault's collection of essays, Power, Colin Gordon invokes the author's submissions from Discourse and Truth: The Problematisation of Parrhesia. He no... Read More

Of first fish in a world of plankton

India, Aug. 9 -- When characters in a novel are excessively reticent, checking for signs of boredom in their lives can provide valuable insight. This exercise presents the root causes of their inactio... Read More

Review: The Tiger's Share byKeshava Guha

India, Aug. 9 -- When characters in a novel are excessively reticent, checking for signs of boredom in their lives can provide valuable insights. This exercise presents the root causes of their inacti... Read More

Yael van der Wouden: "History also serves as an unfinished thought"

India, July 26 -- On winning the Women's Prize for Fiction, you note how you stand on the shoulders of queer and trans people before you. Please share the significance of the prize for you? It's a hu... Read More

'The question of choices made in war sits at the core of who I am'

India, July 26 -- 1On winning the Women's Prize for Fiction, you note how you stand on the shoulders of queer and trans people before you. Tell us about the significance of the prize for you? It's a h... Read More

VV Ganeshananthan: "Writing isn't activism; it doesn't actually change anything"

India, July 21 -- Towards the end of the book, you write, "Whose stories will you believe? For how long will you listen? Tell me why you think you're here, and that will be as true as anything I can s... Read More

'You cheapen a story if you put horror centre stage'

India, July 12 -- 1What sort of research went into writing Remote Sympathy? Remote Sympathy had its seeds last century, when I was studying German in Berlin in the early to mid 1990s. Our university p... Read More

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