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“I did not create hot scenes between Sonia Gandhi and the Dalai Lama”

Sunaina Kumar

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

Words from This Anger

On the spontaneous literature of outrage the Delhi rape has evoked

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

When the Litfest Came to Town

The circus you missed, in nine easy snapshots

Non-fiction is Dead: Long Live Belles-lettres

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’

‘The Best is Not Necessarily Literary’

David Davidar explains why publishers can’t afford to invest time and money on their authors, and goads writers to start taking risks

Does Dalrymple know what racism really is?

The ‘racism’ charge is absurd, and designed merely to deflect attention from the real issue.

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