A Modern-Day Parable
“The human self has come before religion, nations and boundaries—what is the self?” This is the…
Books
Uncle Jeff
Jeffrey Archer took to writing only when he was forced to quit politics for the first…
Unhappily Ever After…
Dismissive of Shakespeare, readers, television, media and the world in general… Upamanyu Chatterjee is at his…
The Trailblazer
Harsh Snehanshu reviews Raj Kamal Jha’s She Will Build Him A City, and asserts that despite…
Rendezvous with Nicholson Baker
Vineet Gill talks about the writing style of the novelist Nicholson Baker, his reorientation of the…
Ruskin Bond: The Man from Mussoorie
Devjani Bodepudi talks to a legend in the world of Indian writing, Ruskin Bond reflects on…
A Big Element of Shamelessness
Capturing the very essence of political incorrectness, Hanif Kureishi discusses his thoughts on racism, creativity and…
Travelling between genres with Amit Chaudhuri
Soumabrata Chatterjee talks to Amit Chaudhuri about travelling between genres, being a flaneur, and lots more….
On the Jaipur Literature Festival and Other Festivals of Ideas
Monidipa Mondal and William Dalrymple explore the intellectual and emotional allure of literature festivals at and…
An Extract From Salil Tripathi’s ‘The Colonel Who Would Not Repent’
On a cold winter night, driving through a dark street without lights, we reached a house…