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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
The Carburettor
Rajesh Parameswaran talks about his reluctance to talk about his writing—and the lasting lessons of failing quickly with short stories
The Hermit
After years of putting off a lifelong passion, Kishwar Desai finds she must shut herself off from the world in order to write—but the world still seeps into her writing
The Importance of Being Earnest
Writers cannot live in a vacuum, isolated from political currents anymore, says Pankaj Mishra
“I love solitude but I don’t need it to write”
The poet, lyricist and adman says advertising has helped his poetry
The Constant Writer
Ramachandra Guha on the thrills of research, the insecurity of academics and their love of jargon, and why he doesn’t take holidays
The Writer’s Riyaaz
Amit Chaudhuri on the death of the author-editor relationship, the boredom of being a novelist, and writing on his feet, literally
The Reader’s Writer
Tabish Khair on why he doesn’t write for critics, his dislike of the term ‘postcolonial’, and how journalism helped him overcome his dread of deadlines
Bombay in His Veins
Kiran Nagarkar was watching movies to put off writing, but ended up writing a novel set in Bollywood
“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
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