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The Writer Who Came In From the Cold

Sudeep Paul

The greatest spy novelist fictionalised his life while his fiction often seemed too real

Twinkle Khanna: The Tina Factor

Movies. Best-selling books. Design stores. And now a self-help website called Tweak. Twinkle Khanna is unstoppable

Olga Tokarczuk: Killer Instinct

Olga Tokarczuk won the Man Booker International prize in 2018. The Polish novelist is again in the running with an old-fashioned whodunnit

‘Trump has a boyish crush on Putin,’ says Simon Sebag Montefiore

Nandini Nair in conversation with Simon Sebag Montefiore, historian and novelist

Cho Dharman: Alone in Shadowland

Tamil author Cho Dharman turns tales from the bucolic into cultural histories and anthropological meditations. He talks about his art and politics in a conversation with V Shoba

Amos Oz as Patriot and Dissident

Shaped by books and loss, he argued against the temptations of power

Ruskin Bond: Man on the Hill

India’s most beloved writer remembers

The Plot Thickens

Mario Vargas Llosa’s new novel has his trademark cliffhangers

Anita Desai: Insider Outsider

The Mexico of Anita Desai has an Indian core that remains resonant to this day

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi: ‘To be truly adult is to be child-like’

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi has written a fable of arranged marriages and spiritual quests

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