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Experiments with the Novel
Tabish Khair
A mix of long fiction, travel writing, fictionalised autobiography and history, Rahul Bhattacharya fashions a different kind of a novel
Writer Unblocked
Writing a Mills & Boon novel rekindled a romance in Aastha Atray Banan’s life—the one with words. For, it finally allowed her to let go of the fear of being judged as a writer
The Memory Game
A favourite for the Man Booker prize this year, Alan Hollinghurst’s country house novel may appear oddly familiar to Indian readers of English literature
How I wrote my 500 page novel set in ancient Greece without being there
‘The Emissary’ takes you to Ancient Greece at the time of Alexander the Great through the tale of a young renegade who ends up with a role in shaping Greek destiny. How the idea took seed, though, is another story
The Write Stuff from IIT and IIM
Move over Chetan Bhagat. There is a new crop of BEs and MBAs churning out fiction, and not just about life at the IITs and IIMs.
Rocket Writer
Sujit Saraf on his new book about a bandit and how slow and sarkari his former employer, Nasa, really is
Portrait of a City
Restless, fevered even, and awash with the portend of impending doom, Theroux’s latest is difficult to put down or forget.
The Indian Art of Murder
We know Sherlock ‘elementary’ Holmes, we know Hercule ‘little grey cells’ Poirot and we know Philip ‘I collect blondes and bottles’ Marlowe. Now, several writers are making a pitch for the next great detective—from India
In Conversation with Meghnad Desai
Economist Meghnad Desai on the fun he had—despite the many challenges—while writing his first work of fiction titled ‘Dead on Time’
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