In a Pakistan special issue in 2010, we interviewed him for the first time. Since then, he has been to India several times, the first two times on invitations from Kindle. Taimur Rahman, the lead vocalist and guitarist of the
Journalist, filmmaker and author Adrian Levy who has written extensively on the subcontinent, decodes for us, the feverishly complex networks of terror, bureaucracy, state, military and clan combinations in the region. Finally, with the announcement of the Islamic caliphate by
A map dispassionately establishes, in quantifiable terms, the geography of a place, it fixes the contours of a landscape but how does one go beyond the given to unearth the histories, the stories, the peoples of a land? Jim Crace,
Gabriel García Márquez, whose absence will continue to be mourned for a very long time and whose depth of vision and compassion – not to mention his words – will continue to be celebrated long after that, was not just
Everyone deserves a second chance but they don’t always get one. Bappa C was twelve when he met a charismatic German man in his neighbourhood who used heroin. Bappa admired the way he walked and talked, he enjoyed hanging out
In 2013, Kamila Shamsie was included in the Granta list of 20 best young British writers. In conversation with Sanah Agrawal, she talks about her latest book “A God in Every Stone” and how her life experiences have influenced her
Mahesh Dattani needs no introduction. Suffice it to say that the release of his new book, Me and My Plays featuring his latest works triggers this conversation. By Sayan Bhattacharya. From the time when the whole discourse around Indian writing
Vikram Chandra’s new book Mirrored Mind is a deceptively simple read but it sets off complex thinking points. In this interview with Sayan Bhattacharya, he talks of the rigour of writing, the structuring of plotlines, Sanskrit’s liveness and more. So
The inspiration behind Ketto. Well the main idea behind it was to make charity in our country easy, accessible and fun. We felt that charity was very serious, it had a lot of gravity attached to it. A lot of
It was exactly a year back, we spoke to Shyam Benegal on Mandi on its 30th anniversary. This time, a conversation with the protagonist of the film, Shabana Azmi, who was participating at the Kolkata Literary Meet. From Mandi to