S Prasannarajan
The reality of the world Gabriel García Márquez inherited needed a redeemer, a storyteller. El Maestro lived to tell the tale
Jeffrey Archer has no clue what makes great literature but is never short of stories to tell
Karnad’s outrage over an award to Naipaul seeks to impose irrelevant standards on a writer
Writers cannot live in a vacuum, isolated from political currents anymore, says Pankaj Mishra
What’s so ‘non’ about literary work that is based on reportage and commentary? Let’s stop subordinating this genre with the term ‘non-fiction’
David Davidar explains why publishers can’t afford to invest time and money on their authors, and goads writers to start taking risks
The ‘racism’ charge is absurd, and designed merely to deflect attention from the real issue.
William Dalrymple takes exception to a piece we ran arguing that India’s life of letters was still beholden to the British.