The story of two photographers, Raghu Rai and Kishor Parekh, and their books on the birth of Bangladesh
13 March 2013Writers cannot live in a vacuum, isolated from political currents anymore, says Pankaj Mishra
31 August 2012The spa treatment costs are small change if you won’t blink at paying Rs 1,25,000/night for the Presidential Suite here
23 December 2011Doshi seems to have written an entire novel in search of answers that she believes will ground her to some sort of reality.
08 August 2010Writer Tishani Doshi speaks of creating her own luck, her debut novel and life as a ‘pleasure seeker’.
08 August 2010Award winning author and blogger Shelina Zahra Janmohamed speaks of changing the world with her words.
22 July 2010Bhutan is a nation concerned about the effects of the sudden changes it’s encountering. No wonder its delegates at the country’s first lit fest have their energies focused on preserving its oral traditions.
26 May 2010A novel about the Holocaust that says a lot without even seeming to.
06 May 2010The editor-in-chief of Bloomsbury is in India to scout for talent. She speaks of India being a soft market and surviving the end of the Harry Potter series.
21 January 2010Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle