Elizabeth Kuruvilla
Writers cannot live in a vacuum, isolated from political currents anymore, says Pankaj Mishra
The poet, lyricist and adman says advertising has helped his poetry
Ramachandra Guha on the thrills of research, the insecurity of academics and their love of jargon, and why he doesn’t take holidays
Amit Chaudhuri on the death of the author-editor relationship, the boredom of being a novelist, and writing on his feet, literally
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
Kiran Nagarkar was watching movies to put off writing, but ended up writing a novel set in Bollywood
William Dalrymple on why he will never be able to write City of Djinns again, and on isolating himself in his world of books
Writing a Mills & Boon novel rekindled a romance in Aastha Atray Banan’s life—the one with words. For, it finally allowed her to let go of the fear of being judged as a writer
Alan Hollinghurst on fighting laziness, living in the world of his novels and the pressures of being a gay writer