India, Nov. 14 -- You loved reading John Berger and also wrote a book on him, Ways of Telling. What was it like to meet him? At that stage, I'd met very few writers. I loved literature, and I wanted ... Read More
India, Nov. 14 -- 1You loved reading John Berger and you wrote a book on him, Ways of Telling. What was it like to meet him? At that stage, I'd met very few writers. I loved literature. I wanted to be... Read More
India, Nov. 5 -- You've noted earlier that you had the story but not the characters to tell it, and the character came to you when you saw the photo exhibition by Pepa Hristova in Sofia, dedicated to ... Read More
India, Oct. 30 -- Please talk about your experience of translating Salma's book, The Dark Hours of the Night? Mine is a second translation. It was first translated by Lakshmi Holmstrom nearly 15 year... Read More
India, Oct. 29 -- Marlon James's latest novel, The Disappearers, explores the aftermath of a brutal homophobic attack on the cast and crew adapting John Herbert's Fortune and Men's Eyes (1967). The pl... Read More
India, Oct. 24 -- 1Your novel could have been titled The Red House. Those who grew up in the 1990s definitely know of such abandoned bungalows, full of rich stories. What inspired you to feature this ... Read More
India, Oct. 19 -- Your new book's subtitle is provocative. Were you interested in centralising the general acceptability of 'free speech' without considering its potential dangers? I became intereste... Read More
India, Oct. 17 -- Earlier, you've noted that you "kind of ran out of life" having already leveraged your experiences in poetry and memoir. I think, perhaps, more than having "run out of life", I felt... Read More
India, Oct. 17 -- 1You once said that you "kind of ran out of life", having already leveraged your experiences in poetry and memoir. I think perhaps, more than having "run out of life", I felt at the ... Read More
India, Oct. 14 -- Of KM Panikkar, K Iswara Dutt noted that he was "one of the impossible men". But he didn't write a doorstopper of a book like you did, though you feel the same way about the man. Why... Read More