writing

Unni R, Author

Open

Playing With Fire

Mayank Austen Soofi, Author and Blogger

Open

Daily Delhi

Lawrence Osborne: ‘Sensuality drives everything in travel’

Tunku Varadarajan

Novelist and traveller Lawrence Osborne on the art of seeing and writing

‘We musicians sit on the high horse of religiosity,’ says TM Krishna

V Shoba

Open conversation with TM Krishna, Carnatic vocalist and writer

Akhil Sharma: ‘I am an Immigrant’

Nandini Nair

Akhil Sharma takes his readers into the core of human experience

The Marathoner

Aastha Atray Banan

Vikram Chandra finds solitude annoying when he writes, but admits to not being a collaborative enough person to work on movies. He writes 400 words every day, adamant that writing is about a steady pace, not a stroke of inspiration

The Accidental Genius

Akshaya Pillai

George Saunders, who suspects he won the MacArthur genius grant through an error, on his ability to write anywhere and the importance of doing the dishes

The Man of a Hundred Drafts

Sohini Chattopadhyay

Ved Mehta on a life of writing

‘Writers these days write to be seen, not read’

Akshaya Pillai

For years, Anees Salim nursed his introversion and dealt with rejection by starting new novels. This year, four of them found publishers

The Asianist

Omkar Khandekar

Writing about South East Asia, Tash Aw explores the confusion of new personal and political freedoms, privileging emotional authenticity over exotic detail