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Hari Kunzru: ‘The border is not a nice place right now for anybody with brown skin’

Rahul Pandita

A writer in a polarised world. Hari Kunzru talks about his art and politics in a conversation with Rahul Pandita

The Fall of Man in the Age of Anger

S Prasannarajan

What makes this text an indispensible addition to the canon of intellectual histories is not just the urgency of its argument but the delightful march-past of writers

Jerry Pinto: Bombay Central

Open

There are Indian writers in English and there are regional writers of the vernacular. Jerry Pinto is among the rare few who straddles both worlds.

Karan Mahajan: Explosive Imagination

Open

There is a certain smartness to this Delhi-raised writer’s work that has made him the toast in literary circles.

Sunil Khilnani: Discovering India

Open

He has once again established his credentials as a leading public intellectual with his book Incarnations: India in 50 Lives

What a Tamasha!

Indrajit Hazra

Nothing was sacred for the writer who never aged

The Bar Dancer Who Became a Writer

Lhendup G Bhutia

Shagufta Rafique became a sex worker at the age of 17, joined bar-dancing some years later, and now finds success as a film scriptwriter

The Accidental Author

Devika Bakshi

One of the country’s most popular romance writers, Ravinder Singh is as unabashed about being a writer who doesn’t read as he is about being a male writer of romances