Megha Majumdar in conversation with Nandini Nair

Megha Majumdar’s debut novel, about a terrorist attack, deals with the big questions of contemporary India with a light hand

‘If you can go to a protest, why can’t you go to a football game, why can’t you go to a political convention?,’ Lawrence Wright tells Nandini Nair

Living in a new normal

As Kathputli Colony, a folk artist neighbourhood in Delhi, is pushed to the brink, the community searches for ways to survive

Bois Locker Room shows us how terrifying the world of teenagers can be, and how as a society we have let them down

How touch, hearing, taste, smell and sight have changed in this lockdown

To adopt a vocabulary of war is to create division and forego solidarity

Social distancing and staying indoors are not an option for thousands of homeless living in Delhi. Nandini Nair meets them as they try to stave off hunger and disease

Sickness may be a great leveller but the pandemic reveals how some lives are more equal than others. Nandini Nair captures the stranded migrant labourers’ struggle for home

CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…