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Caught in the Diamond-Encrusted Rat Trap: Adil Jussawalla’s Bombay still sparkles
October 17, 2025 12:30 pm
Adil Jussawalla’s Bombay hums with typewriter clacks and human contradictions, tender, tired, and terribly alive
Why the Cholas were one of the world’s most powerful empires: Amish Tripathi explains
January 05, 2026 9:24 pm
Amish Tripathi on The Chola Tigers, forgotten dynasties, and the balance of dharma
Booker Prize 2025 shortlist announced — and Kiran Desai is back
October 08, 2025 12:17 pm
Booker Prize 2025 shortlist: The 2025 Booker Prize shortlist features six novels, including Kiran Desai’s much-anticipated The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, alongside works by Susan Choi, Katie Kitamura and others.
'Fame is another kind of loneliness': Kiran Desai on her Booker-shortlisted novel
October 23, 2025 4:51 pm
The writer, 54, on her new novel, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, what she has learned about fame from her mother Anita Desai, and on being back in the Booker reckoning
'The silence (of Kashmiris) shaped the book as much as the stories themselves': Ipsita Chakravarty on her debut book Dapaan
September 01, 2025 3:43 pm
The conversation traced Chakravarty’s journey from her first reports in 2016, in the wake of Burhan Wani’s killing, to the silence she encountered when she began researching the book in 2022.
The last train to India: Bhisham Sahni and the stories Partition left behind
August 18, 2025 12:46 pm
A look at how Bhisham Sahni’s Partition journey became the thread in his fiction and a testament to his effort at remembering what history would rather forget.
'If Idgah was the doorway, Do Bailon Ki Katha was the mirror': Remembering Premchand
August 12, 2025 11:36 am
On Munshi Premchand’s 145th birth anniversary, a reader reflects on Do Bailon Ki Katha, a story that transcended its village setting to become a parable of resistance, workers' rights and India's struggle for freedom.
‘A garden of spring’: Malayalam writers on breaking free from the West and finding their voice
August 08, 2025 11:35 am
From Gulf revolutions to literary realism, authors Benyamin, S Hareesh and E Santhosh Kumar explore how Malayalam fiction is carving out an authentic, deeply rooted narrative voice.
Kiran Desai’s first novel in 19 years earns spot on Booker Prize 2025 longlist
August 29, 2025 3:47 pm
The Booker Prize 2025 longlist features 13 titles from around the world, including Indian-origin author Kiran Desai's The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny; if Desai wins, she would become only the fifth author to win the Booker twice
'Holes in dosas in everyone’s house': What ‘Ghachar Ghochar’ taught me about the Indian middle class and wealth
September 01, 2025 9:48 am
In Vivek Shanbhag’s masterful novella, ‘Ghachar Ghochar’ the rise of a middle-class family through sudden wealth reveals the quiet corrosion of morality, relationships, conscience – and the self.
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