A writer speaks
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What an elderly English tourist taught writer Anees Salim about his hometown, Varkala
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‘Images, phrases, characters’: Farah Ahamed on the literary influences on her book ‘Period Matters’
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‘In these shitty times, your loving cripple’: Writer Hanif Kureishi’s notes from a hospital bed
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‘Clarity is not the protocol of literature’: Geetanjali Shree on the writer’s responsibilities
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‘I heard sounds come from the water’: Sharanya Manivannan on the images in her new picture book
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How a farmers’ march in 2018 entered Anita Agnihotri’s newly translated novel in real time
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How is a writer inspired to write by the scenes she sees and the conversations she overhears
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Robert Clive reimagined: How to use the techniques of novel-writing for historical figures
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Why novelist Sheena Kalayil does not like being boxed as a BAME writer
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‘Chattu’ and I: How Chetan Bhagat and I both started our (polar opposite) literary journeys from IIT
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Is the modern world too close for comfort to write about? Two recent books show how it is being done
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‘My first short story, written at the age of 14, had an unhappy fate. But it rescued me.’
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When a writer reads another, it can sometimes be love (and envy) at first sight
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‘I have to criticise religions that oppress women’: Taslima Nasrin at Jaipur Literature Festival
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'It isn’t autobiography, but it's a daughter’s book in every way': Madeleine Thien
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It’s 25 years since ‘A Strange and Sublime Address’ opened the gate to Indian writers in English
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Growing out of the cocoon: Perumal Murugan is back to life as a writer
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Why do people seem so weary with literature? How do we rebuild the alphabet for writing?
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'Now it’s the turn of memory to mock me': Mahasweta Devi on life, love, and liberation
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Boy meets girl, man rapes woman, and what it has to do with a writer’s imagination
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Why this young writer switched from campus romances to the Jarawas of Andamans
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Why does Indian writing in English still have to defend itself against charges of siding with oppressors?
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Why don’t we have more novels about art?
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Crossword Prize and most rejections: Anees Salim on his novel ‘The Blind Lady’s Descendants’