Lounge

JUMP Start

Rahul Jayaram

A motley group of marine engineers, software professionals, MBAs and journalists has come together to take Indian comics to the next level.

Stale Crumbs

Pramila N. Phatarphekar

Skip the mouldy advice in this entree and savour the classic Michael Pollan of The Omnivore’s Dilemma instead.

Innocence Lost

Rahul Pandita

Amitava Kumar’s book deals with one of the most complex problems of our time: crimes committed by the State in the garb of fighting a war on terror.

“I would say to writers, don’t give up your day jobs”

Elizabeth Kuruvilla

The 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.

Bolder than the Bold

Gagandeep Singh Sapra

It has neither a large screen nor a snazzy interface. But can put a lot of other phones to shame.

Scotland Bard

Sohini Chattopadhyay

Crime fiction maestro Ian Rankin on why detectives never marry, coffee with neighbours JK Rowling and Alexander McCall Smith, and tea conversations with Sharmila Tagore.

Street-smart Tweeter

Avinash Subramaniam

Nobody’s been tweeting for decades. But here’s how you can avoid looking like someone who picked it up only yesterday.

Darwin’s Poetry

Rahul Jayaram

The first woman to hold the Oxford chair in Poetry and the great-great-great-grand daughter of Charles Darwin, Ruth Padel knows a thing or two about survival.