Nandini Nair in conversation with Simon Sebag Montefiore, historian and novelist

From Amitav Ghosh to Ian McEwan

Surviving God and other delights

Me and my self

William Dalrymple | Tishani Doshi | Srinath Raghavan | Aatish Taseer | KR Meera | Arshia Sattar | Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Editor and author Henry Eliot tells how literature expands our experience of what it means to be human

Michelle Obama’s memoir tells of an ordinary person who found herself on an extraordinary journey

Rahul Ranjan, Sankaranaryanan Devarajan, Sahradayi Modi and Ranjeet Pratap Singh, Co-founders, Pratilipi

Women are taking back some control by writing and telling their own stories. But let us not trivialise the struggle either

The aesthetics of the austere

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…