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How a former Swiggy delivery partner went from Rs 5,000 to Rs 11 lakh a month: 'I used to cycle for 100 kilometres'
July 28, 2026 11:58 am
Financial constraints forced Ajit Kumar to give up his dream of becoming a doctor, setting him on an unexpected path that eventually transformed his life.
Writer’s Corner: How a Bengaluru techie fell in love with Gothic horror
July 23, 2026 5:26 pm
Shival Gupta is the author of ‘The Violins That Play at Kiff House’, a gothic novel about a bureaucrat moving with her family into an eerie old home.
Prove you’re human: The exhausting burden of being a writer in the age of AI
May 27, 2026 5:32 pm
From secret time-stamps to daily drafts sent to friends, authors are scrambling to protect their reputations in an era where AI has no shame—and we have too much
Commonwealth Prize AI controversy shows: The writer who took the shortcut, failed the story
May 22, 2026 6:06 pm
Fame, while dazzling, has very little to do with the drudgery of daily practice. In effect, its touch is as mystical and inexplicable as the business of loving and living: It is mundane, it is sublime. To outsource the former is to give up agency upon the latter
A writer against literary networking and other performing arts
May 21, 2026 5:03 pm
That is the essence of literary networking. It is aggressive, result-oriented politeness by those who claim to be dreamers. It cannot get anymore ironic than that
Namita Gokhale, Mahadev Toppo, Peggy Mohan among winners at Banaras Lit Fest Book Awards 2026
February 02, 2026 4:56 pm
The Banaras Lit Fest announced its 2026 Book Awards, honouring Namita Gokhale and writers across Indian languages for excellence in literature.
Ramayana has influenced how I think about stories: Tash Aw on his epic quartet
January 30, 2026 4:34 pm
Writer Tash Aw, speaks on his influences -- and on why the West's talk of 'Chinese aggression towards Taiwan' is a misleading idea
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.
'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
WRITER PHOTOS
Edith Wharton: Facts about the American writer and designer
January 29, 2026 4:46 pm
Edith Newbold Wharton was an American writer and designer. Let's get to know more about her.
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.
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