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Why Vikram Seth writes in English, and who is his ideal reader
October 28, 2025 4:00 pm
On Vikram Seth’s 73rd birthday, we recall his response to a French journalist who asked why he writes in English, a language seen by some as creating distance from Indian readers.
A Suitable Boy actor Tanya Maniktala: Lata will inspire many young girls even today
October 23, 2020 10:52 pm
Actor Tanya Maniktala on her character Lata and the relevance of the miniseries A Suitable Boy in this day and age.
Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy will soon stream on Netflix; here's what the novel is all about
October 22, 2020 8:20 pm
Seth's densely populated world has been adapted into a six-episode series by Mira Nair which will soon stream on Netflix. And before you start watching, here's a primer on what the novel is about
Mira Nair's BBC series A Suitable Boy premieres: What is the Vikram Seth novel about?
July 27, 2020 7:14 pm
Published in 1993 and running for 1,349 pages, the book is considered to be one of the longest novels
A Suitable Boy to release on Netflix in India
July 16, 2020 11:29 am
Tabu, Ishaan Khatter, Tanya Maniktala, Rasika Dugal, and Ram Kapoor star in BBC One's miniseries A Suitable Boy, an adaptation of Vikram Seth's novel of the same name.
A Suitable Boy trailer promises a faithful treatment of the Vikram Seth novel
July 12, 2020 11:30 am
The story of BBC's miniseries A Suitable Boy is set in newly independent India and follows four families. Ishaan Khatter, Tabu, Tanya Maniktala, Rasika Dugal and Ram Kapoor among others are part of the miniseries' cast.
Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, RK Narayan, Vikram Seth's books feature in BBC’s 100 ‘novels that shaped our world’
November 07, 2019 1:59 pm
The list has been divided into 10 categories — identity, love, sex and romance, adventure, life, death and other worlds, politics, power and protest, class and society, coming of age, family and friendship, crime and conflict and rule-breakers, the names — with 10 books each.
'Dear Vikram Seth': On World Poetry Day, an open letter to my favourite poet
March 22, 2018 3:45 pm
World Poetry Day: It helps that you, Vikram Seth are not a philosopher, and if you are, you have hidden that well. Much like me, you never seem to foresee the impending doom, being too busy revelling in the present. And when things fall apart, I can hear you exclaim in fright and quiet resignation.
Rather than opening up to the outside, we’re creating borders within, says Vikram Seth
January 09, 2018 11:35 am
“A poet walks like a neurotic milipede. Don’t examine too closely what the processes of an artist’s creation are. Otherwise, you end up losing it,” said Vikram Seth
Heart of the Matter
October 27, 2017 12:05 am
Smriti Mundhra and Sarita Khurana document the sociocultural environment of arranged marriages in their layered film, A Suitable Girl
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Happy birthday, Vikram Seth: Quotes by the writer that capture the pangs of love and heartbreak
June 20, 2017 5:37 pm
Vikram Seth can weave magic with his words.
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