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16 December 2022Shehan Karunatilaka is out with a collection of short stories, soon after his Booker win. The Sri Lankan author in conversation with Open
09 December 2022The French author’s book on the city’s poverty also showed the resilience of its people
09 December 2022Few authors are as synonymous with a city as French author Dominique Lapierre was with Kolkata
06 December 2022In conversation with Siddhartha Mukherjee, author
02 December 2022George Saunders has a cult status in contemporary fiction. In his new short story collection, the American author explores power and ethics, love and morality. He speaks to Open about creating characters with tenderness
04 November 2022Shehan Karunatilaka brings the Booker Prize to the haunted island
20 October 2022Karunatilaka’s novel, though set during the civil war of the 1990s, seems oddly resonant today
20 October 2022The novels shortlisted for the Booker prize 2022 use humour, horror and heart as strategy
14 October 2022CELESTIAL 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 2019Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals
Brahma 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