William Dalrymple
William Dalrymple: Picture This
Nandini Nair
William Dalrymple was a keen photographer before he became an author. The cell phone has returned him to that abandoned love.
JLF 2016: Word at Your Feet
Stars, the star-struck and other delights and diversions at literature’s biggest carnival
History is in the Telling
Dalrymple’s book is well researched, but that still doesn’t mean we take his account at face value
“The longer you live somewhere, the less you see”
William Dalrymple on why he will never be able to write City of Djinns again, and on isolating himself in his world of books
“The piece you ran is blatantly racist”
William Dalrymple takes exception to a piece we ran arguing that India’s life of letters was still beholden to the British.
Keeping the Faiths
A bad review is like a slap on the face, says William Dalrymple on the release of his latest book, Nine Lives
India Untold
Nine Lives is proof that Dalrymple knows this country better than most Indians, but it also displays a creeping complacency in writing about it.
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