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‘No one’s life is full of rose petals’, says writer Sivasankari whose memoir ‘Suryavamsam’ is now available in English

In ‘Suryavamsam’, a skilfully woven memoir, author Sivasankari takes an emotionally-charged walk down memory lane

Lee and Andrew Child on ‘Better off Dead’: An individual and a symbol

The brothers talk about Jack Reacher’s latest adventure and their efforts to keep the antagonist nasty, plausible and personal

‘I wanted to tell my story in the most truthful way’: Kal Penn on his memoir ‘You Can’t Be Serious’

While it made headlines, following the launch of his memoir ‘You Can’t Be Serious’, the Harold & Kumar star says he is glad his queerness resonated with many

Jerry Amaldev’s autobiography, ‘Enikkellaam Sangeethamaanu’, is about his life in music

The virtuoso’s book is a verbal album of his life as a musician par excellence and his stint in the Malayalam and Hindi film music industry

Prominent poet Robert Bly, author of 'Iron John', dies at 94

‘Iron John: A Book About Men’, his meditation on modern masculinity was released in 1990, and spent more than two years on the New York Times Bestseller List.

Planetary crisis is a kind of bio-political war, akin to those of the past: Amitav Ghosh

The earth is showing us that presentations of history, readings of history as a narrative of progress are actually completely wrong, says the writer.

Cook like a Nobel laureate: Economist Abhijit Banerjee’s new book celebrates family meals

Economist Abhijit Banerjee explores the social dimension of food in his latest book ‘Cooking to Save Your Life’ with grocery runs, dinner parties and lemon dal

Atulya Misra’s ‘Vultures of Paradise’ explores human-environment conflict

The Chennai-based IAS officer says the eco-fiction novel was conceived during the pandemic, in the midst of his work towards the containment of COVID-19

Mannu Bhandari: A soft, self-effacing, yet firm creative voice

Some of her best works include 'Aapki Banti', 'Mahabhoj' and 'Yahi Sach Hai'

Legendary novelist Wilbur Smith dies aged 88

His books have been translated into around 30 languages and several made into films, including "Shout at the Devil" with Lee Marvin and Roger Moore in 1976.

‘It’s not like James Bond’: Former Intelligence officer Prabhakar Aloka on his new espionage novel

Former intelligence officer Prabhakar Aloka attempts to delineate the life of a spy through his new book ‘Operation Haygreeva’

Pullela Gopichand: I did not want my autobiography to be dull and preachy

Ahead of the launch of his autobiography ‘Shuttler’s Flick’, badminton coach and former player Pullela Gopichand reveals how he channelled his hurt to devise a winning strategy and bounce back stronger

Himali Singh Soin: ‘Writing a book is an act of democracy’

The poet and artist read excerpts from her book, ‘we are opposite like that’ at a session organised by the India Foundation For the Arts

Tahira Kashyap Khurrana: Clearly, I’ve failed as the ‘Bollywood wife’

Tahira Kashyap Khurrana’s ‘The 7 Sins Of Being A Mother’ is causing quite the buzz; so we ask the author about her uncensored approach to pregnancy libido and mom guilt

‘You can’t save the world, but you must record it’: Amitava Kumar

A novel becomes an archive of the current moment, says Amitava Kumar, whose latest book, A Time Outside This Time, is on the stands

‘Whisper to Me Your Lies’ looks at the cause and effect of crime

For his latest novel, Novoneel Chakraborty has forayed into the crime genre set in the world of UPSC aspirants and coaches

How drugs shaped the world we live in

Chennai-based writer Thomas Manuel’s ‘Opium Inc’ investigates how British colonialism was funded by a global trade in the drug

Author Sandeepika’s first audio book ‘Adipatta Puli’ is set in Coimbatore

The crime thriller recalls the twin bomb blasts that shook Coimbatore in 1998

Malayalam literature translates into success stories

Translations of novels by Malayalam authors M Mukundan and VJ James figure in the shortlist of the JCB Prize for Literature 2021. Meet the translators taking Malayalam literature to a wider audience

Divya Anand says her latest book is not another workplace romance

‘Written in the Stars’ throws light on some of the challenges women face at the workplace

'No Presents Please' wins American translation award

Tejaswini Niranjana had translated the original Kannada short stories collection written by Jayant Kaikini to English

‘A House Full of Men’ delves into the nuances of family relationships

In her latest book, ‘A House Full of Men,’ author and screenwriter Parinda Joshi shines a light on how easy it is misunderstand loved ones

Author of bestselling crime novel at the age of 11

Pune-based Malayali boy Joshua Bejoy’s novel currently tops in Amazon kindle edition in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, and India

OTA’s Lady Cadets are the heroes of Tanushree Podder's latest novel

Tanushree Podder sets her latest military adventure ‘The Girls in Green’ in Chennai’s Officers Training Academy

Watch | In conversation with Kalki Koechlin on her book ‘The Elephant in the Womb’

Kalki Koechlin is an actor, celebrity, award-winner, activist, writer, and a mum. Yet another celeb-turned-author? A-listers have been jumping on the

Kalki Koechlin’s ‘giant experience’: the actor on her pregnancy memoir, ‘The Elephant in the Womb’

The actor’s pregnancy memoir, ‘The Elephant in the Womb’, is filled not just with her poems and rants, but also discusses parenting choices and abortions

Ashoka, not a nice guy?: Ravi Shankar Etteth on his latest book, ‘The Return of The Brahmin’

How Ravi Shankar Etteth’s The Return of The Brahmin looks at the famed king’s disruptive side

Paula Hawkins on ‘A Slow Fire Burning’: ‘It always starts with a character’

Her latest book, the British author says, is about a troubled young woman, and something terrible happening on a houseboat

MD Manoj’s passion for cinema and music has been expressed in several books

Manoj’s latest is a book on SP Balasubrahmanyam

The fragile heritage of the early mosques of South East Asia

Conservation architect Patricia Tusa Fels trains the spotlight on vernacular architecture of the early mosques of SE Asia and the danger of losing it to modernity in her book ‘Monsoon Mosques: Arrival of Islam and the Development of a Mosque Vernacular’

Auroville and the price of perfection: Akash Kapur on his new book

Writer Akash Kapur turns his gaze inwards in his new book, ‘Better to Have Gone’, to investigate the mystery behind the deaths of two family members, and unravel larger truths about the City of Dawn

‘The Glass Palace’ travels to Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan foreign service officer Niluka Kadurugamuwa’s ‘Veeduru Maligawa’, a translation of ‘The Glass Palace’, brings Amitav Ghosh to the Sinhala reader

Umpteen travels with Yathra Mohan in ‘A Tourist’s Guide to Calicut’

Seventy-four year-old veteran travel guide Yathra Mohan chats about ‘A Tourist’s Guide to Calicut’, a practical and interesting tour book on the historic city of Kozhikode

Amia Srinivasan: of sex, politics and discomfort

Oxford’s star philosopher Amia Srinivasan has released one of the most divisive books of the year and may change how we see feminism

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