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Writer’s Corner: ‘Development shouldn’t erase heritage,’ says Meera Iyer who has spent years documenting Bengaluru’s past

August 20, 2025 4:49 pm

Around two decades ago, a visit to Devanahalli fort in Karnataka made Meera Iyer realise that there was nobody to tell visitors about the place’s historical importance. She decided to change that and began volunteering with INTACH.

Writer's Corner: Gautam Bhatia looks back at a path straddling law and science fiction

August 09, 2025 7:01 pm

A graduate of Bengaluru's NLSIU, Gautam Bhatia has written 3 sci-fi novels so far -- The Sentence, The Wall, and The Horizon.

Honouring the life and legacy of M.T. Vasudevan Nair, a revered Malayalam writer and filmmaker whose works like Randamoozham and Naalukettu redefined Indian literature and cinema.

'Characters, their predicaments -- that’s what inspires me': M T Vasudevan Nair, a giant of Malayalam literature and film, dies at 91

December 26, 2024 7:30 am

M T Vasudevan Nair’s works drew inspiration from the agrarian life along the banks of the river Nila, where he spent his childhood in an upper-caste Nair family

The Writer’s Corner: With the release of her latest book, Lavanya Lakshminarayan reinforces her place as one of Bengaluru’s foremost speculative fiction authors

November 25, 2024 8:17 pm

Lavanya Lakshminarayan’s latest novel, Interstellar Megachef, features a human participating in a pan-galactic cooking show.

The Writer’s Corner: Aditya Sondhi reflects on his enduring ties with Bengaluru, a city that has his heart

September 30, 2024 12:10 pm

Aditya Sondhi’s latest book ‘Poles Apart’ is a dissection of the evolution of how the military interacted with growing democracy over the years in India and Pakistan.

It’s an anxious time for all artistes, including the ones long dead. (Illustration: Pixabay)

It's the season of lists: Are you a list-maker or an avid follower?

December 27, 2023 10:02 am

Even as lists bring order to life, they can never substitute the thrill of discovery

Punjabi writer Charan Singh Shaheed's satirical poems get a new lease of life with an English translation

July 27, 2023 12:52 pm

Translated by his great-granddaughter and former Indian Express journalist Sunanda Beecha Mehta, Majestic Musings: Poems of Humour and Satire captures the 19th century poet's gleeful wordplay

Award-winning Ukrainian writer dies of injuries suffered in Russian missile attack on restaurant

July 04, 2023 1:52 pm

“Victoria Amelina was a celebrated Ukrainian author who turned her distinct and powerful voice to investigate and expose war crimes after the full scale military invasion of Ukraine in February 2022," said Polina Sadovskaya, Eurasia director at PEN America.

Writer Anand's records point to many ways in which authoritarianism can manifest itself

March 28, 2023 8:16 pm

For the Malayalam writer, the Emergency has not been a moment frozen in history. It is a sentiment or a tendency that needs to be guarded against and called out.

'Men still don't know how to interact with strong and self-assured women': Manav Kaul

March 25, 2023 11:58 am

"I keep taking a lot of breaks from acting because I want to travel. I really don’t take anything seriously, I am just playing everywhere," he said

WRITER VIDEOS

Krishna Sobti passes away at 93

June 22, 2020 6:04 pm

Krishna Sobti, legendary Hindi writer, passed away early this morning in Delhi. She was 93.

Writer Ashok Vajpeyi to return D.Litt on Dalit suicide

January 20, 2016 8:11 am

New Delhi, Jan 20 (ANI): The 'Award Wapsi' trend returned with writer Ashok Vajpeyi deciding to return his D. Litt honour conferred on him by the Hyderabad University as a mark of protest against the university's attitude towards the Dalit scholar's suicide. Vajpeyi added that under present circumstances, he doesn’t think he can associate with the Hyderabad University. Earlier, he had returned the Sahitya Akademi Award to protest the murder of renowned writer M.M. Kalburgi.