literature
Loose Canon
Sunanda K Datta-Ray
Shashi Tharoor takes on everything from Modi to the significance of birthdays with his elegant prose, but spreads his umbrella too wide
Back Together
The biggest bromance in contemporary literary history comes full circle at JLF, as VS Naipaul and Paul Theroux drive out together
“I did not create hot scenes between Sonia Gandhi and the Dalai Lama”
Author Javier Moro on the release of his controversial book, The Red Sari, and why the life of Sonia Gandhi fascinates him
El Realismo Gabo, Forever
The reality of the world Gabriel García Márquez inherited needed a redeemer, a storyteller. El Maestro lived to tell the tale
Still Quite a Quiverful
Jeffrey Archer has no clue what makes great literature but is never short of stories to tell
Old Aunt Girish
Karnad’s outrage over an award to Naipaul seeks to impose irrelevant standards on a writer
The Importance of Being Earnest
Writers cannot live in a vacuum, isolated from political currents anymore, says Pankaj Mishra
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