Olivia Laing’s new book examines the idea of paradise. The author and cultural critic speaks about the pleasures of gardens, their hidden costs and the meaning of home
16 August 2024Hari Kunzru’s new novel completes his trilogy on creative pursuits. The author speaks to
27 July 2024Anita Desai returns after more than a decade with the story of a young woman in Mexico. She speaks about why writers are outsiders
12 July 2024In a new book for children Esther Duflo shows what it means to be poor. The Nobel laureate and the book’s illustrator speak to
05 July 2024Milind Soman, with his wife and mother, provides the key to staying young. They talk to
28 June 2024Sunjeev Sahota, two-time Booker Prize nominee, speaks about his new novel that deals with race and identity
24 May 2024The Nobel laureate perfected the possibilities of a short story
17 May 2024Baltazard Solvyns’ etchings provide an encyclopaedic view of early life in Bengal
10 May 2024Neel Mukherjee’s new novel is a quarrel with capitalism. The author speaks about choices made and those deferred
26 April 2024CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…
10 April 2019Brahma 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
Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm
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