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.
For all their posturing and weighty pretences, the Indian elite’s life of letters is still strangely beholden to the British
Writing about Peru, the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature, Mario Vargas Llosa, also writes about our reality
A visual depiction of events of the 1970s that makes this dark period seem more sinister than ever.
How will today’s children learn to live in their own world when all they read about are heroes who have magical powers to fight evil forces?