'The urge to write never really left me'

India, May 23 -- 1In an interview, you noted that as a 62-year-old, you thought your moment had passed. But here you are, shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction for your debut novel. Tell us wh... Read More

Review: Departure(s) by Julian Barnes

India, May 8 -- This is from Primo Levi's The Periodic Table (1984): "We are here for this - to make mistakes and to correct ourselves, to stand the blows and hand them out. We must never feel disarme... Read More

'It is in the nature of art to be problematic'

India, May 2 -- 1Your novel, The Director (2025), is divided into three parts - Outside, Inside, and After - mimicking the process of movie-making: a film's inception, its production and its afterlife... Read More

Daniel Kehlmann: "It is the nature of art to be problematic"

India, May 2 -- The book is divided into three parts - Outside, Inside, and After, mimicking the process of moviemaking: a movie's inception, its production and afterlife. Was that intentional? Putti... Read More

'I absorbed vast amounts of shame as a child'

India, April 11 -- 1Your characters feel the ripple effects of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Can you tell us how you view the elasticity of time, and how understanding is shaped in hindsight, with such... Read More

'We are still driven by basic instincts'

India, March 28 -- 1In an interview about your novel, Of Cattle and Men, you spoke about seducing readers to continue with a story. Given that the gore and violence in On Earth as It Is Beneath, tell ... Read More

When your dreams become data

Nepal, March 14 -- Have you considered that your dreams could be 'farmed', too? Let me help with you the basics. To simplify it, 'data farming' is a process that helps analyse a particular dataset, co... Read More

Remembering Bill sa'ab, the ace travel writer

India, March 12 -- "The mountains would become in my life the symbol - and solution - of this conflict between the spirit and the senses, making straight the way to an understanding of purpose in life... Read More

Safe harbours and stardust in Kozhikode

India, March 7 -- At the ninth edition of the Kerala Literature Festival in Kozhikode, India's first Unesco City of Literature, there was much excitement around the presence of astronaut Sunita Willia... Read More

Report: Kerala Literature Festival, 2026

India, March 7 -- At the ninth edition of the Kerala Literature Festival in Kozhikode, India's first UNESCO 'City of Literature', there was much excitement around the presence of astronaut Sunita Will... Read More

• 1
• 2
• »