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Interviewing the Beatles was the biggest thrill of my life: Kabir Bedi

The ever-dashing actor on his work, tumultuous life, and new autobiography 'Stories I Must Tell: The Emotional Journey Of An Actor'

Actor Kalki Koechlin

‘Elephant In The Womb’: Kalki Koechlin turns author with book on motherhood

The graphic book, illustrated by Valeriya Polyanychko, will be a combination of personal essays and think-pieces.

Writer Bhaskar Maiya passes away at 70 in Mangaluru

Special Correspondent

The Kendra Sahitya Akademi awardee was undergoing treatment for the last four days following COVID-19 infection.

Esther David collaborates with Indian Jewish communities to record recipes for ‘Bene Appétit: The Cuisine of the Indian Jews’

Shonali Muthalaly Author Esther David travels across India, collaborating with Jewish communities to learn how to cook traditional, closely guarded recipes for her new book, ‘Bene Appétit: The Cuisine of the Indian Jews’

recipes Cook it under $1 with chef Shankar Krishnamurthy

Prabalika M. Borah Chef Shankar Krishnamurthy’s new pandemic-inspired e-book ‘The $1 Cookbook’ digs into innovation and frugality in home cooking

Manasa Yendluri

In Conversation ‘There is caste in every corner of this country’: Manasa Yendluri

Ashley Tellis Telugu author Manasa Yendluri is challenging mainstream perceptions of gender, sexuality and religion

This file photo shows CIA operative turned best-selling author, Jason Matthews in Washington. Matthews, an award-winning spy novelist who drew upon his long career in espionage and his admiration for John le Carre among others in crafting his popular “Red Sparrow” thrillers, died on April 28, 2021.

Jason Matthews, CIA operative turned best-selling author, passes away

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obituary A tribute to Manzoor Ahtesham: A man buried in his books

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Creative strokes on a historical canvas: on Girish Karnad's new play 'Rakshasa Tangadi'

Shyam Selvadurai on adapting Funny Boy with Deepa Mehta

Lessons from an environmentalist

Two friends and a story

Exploring the theme of identity: on Gaysi’s inaugural Zine Bazaar

The way to wellness

'I’m at the halfway mark': Twinkle Khanna on her new book, 'Pyjamas are Forgiving'

With one eye on mortality and the other on an ever-growing list of projects, Twinkle Khanna, whose début novel, 'Pyjamas are Forgiving', is on the stands, says it is all about timing

Giving children’s literature the attention it deserves

The second edition of the Neev Literature Festival focusses not just on children, but also parents and adult educators, attempting to make literacy

RSS, Kashmir, and a mystery: Chetan Bhagat's new book

After exploring different shades of romance, Chetan Bhagat dives into thriller genre with a novel that promises to present a new perspective on the Kashmir problem

Blame it on hormones

Randi Sutter Epstein explains the history of hormones and how chemicals govern us right from hunger to growth in her book

Krishna, the liberator

If there is a god who has captured the imagination of the literati the most, it is the lovable Krishna who inspires love instead of awe

Ex-cop Shantonu Sen tells the inside story

Sherlock Holmes may have been relegated to the confines of story books but his avtars keep surfacing from time to time. Among them is big-built

‘Even heaven is not home’: Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautifully illustrated Sea Prayer inspired by Alan Kurdi

Author Ira Mukhoty’s peek into the Mughal household

From the resilience of Khanzada Begum to the food habits of Akbar, author Ira Mukhoty reveals many Mughal secrets over a lavish vegetarian meal

‘Crime is the crux’

The third book in Bhaskar Chattopadhyay’s detective series is set in a sleepy village in Goa. The author talks of the mechanics of a mystery novel

Tony award-winning U.S. playwright Neil Simon dies at 91

Simon's plays made him a wealthy man and many were turned into films, which made him even wealthier and earned him four Academy Award nominations.

You have to expose violence to air: Fatima Bhutto

For the Pakistani writer, Karachi has changed from a city pregnant with longing to a place of loss and fear

Testimonials to life’s curveballs

Spoken word poet Rochelle D’silva’s new EP reflects the pain and joy of humanity

Muslims in Sanskrit texts

A study of the works of historians Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya and Audrey Trushke suggests that the Muslim ‘other’ was really not so much ‘other’

Tackling boredom

In her book “Yawn: Adventures in Boredom”, Mary Mann, a freelance writer, tells us how to deal with bored kids and adults

Who is Ismat Chughtai, featured in today’s Google Doodle?

Google on Tuesday celebrated the 107th birth anniversary of Urdu writer Ismat Chughtai with a Doodle. In a blogpost, Google referred to her as the

Charting her spiritual progress

Margery Kempe’s transformation from a simple woman to a visionary has been well documented by Anthony Bale in “The Book of Margery Kempe”

View from the other side

“Urdu Adab Mein Ghair Ka Tasawwur” explores the concept of the other in Urdu literature

The little girl who saved the planet

Manjula Padmanabhan’s latest book, Shrinking Vanita, features a ‘different’ kind of superhero

‘I wanted her to ask why she had to choose’

Veera Hiranandani talks about her latest book The Night Diary, which is set against the backdrop of Partition

'I feel as sad as if I just lost a beloved older brother': Salman Rushdie on V.S. Naipaul's death

Reactions to V.S. Naipaul's passing

Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul dies aged 85

In an extraordinary career, Naipaul traveled as a self-described “barefoot colonial” from his rural Trinidad childhood to upper class England

Keep calm and aloe on

From saffron kajal to rosewater spritzes, our beauty columnist walks us through the discoveries of her debut book

Rooted to reality

Remembering Acharya Shivpujan Sahay, who served Hindi literature with distinction

Winning your inner belief

Actor-writer Mindy Kaling tells us how one can do virtually the impossible in her book,“Why Not me?”

Kannada writer Sumatheendra Nadig no more

Well-known Kannada poet and critic Sumatheendra R. Nadig passed away early on Tuesday morning in Bengaluru.The 83-year-old writer was an important

Haruki Murakami says writing novels is about rhythm

In “Murakami Radio”, a pre-recorded radio show, the Japanese author opens up about his love for music and running.

Who is S. Hareesh?

As Kerala’s paddy-rich Kuttanad reels under its worst flood in recent times, the region’s most promising storyteller is fighting a deluge of religious

A love story and a storm

After her maiden book on parenting, former journalist turned writer Lakshmy Ramanathan combines reportage with fiction in her new novel

A true life story

Set in Colombia. Ingrid Rojas Contreras’s debut novel, “Fruit of the Drunken Tree” is a fascinating mix of fiction and reality.

In defence of Nehru

In his masterfully structured lecture, Prof. Namvar Singh seeks to explore India’s awe-inspiring civilisational journey through the writings of Jawaharlal Nehru

‘Raindrops on My Memory Yacht’ weaves together blog posts from a distant shore

Thiruvananthapuram-born Swathi Sasidharan’s memoir is a collection of blog posts she wrote in Ireland

Paper Jewels: Tracking postcards from the Raj

A new book showcases 500 postcards from the Raj, ‘the Instagram of the time’, which travelled the world and told tales from the subcontinent

People’s voice

Poetry, for Gopaldas Neeraj, was an uncontrollable urge, and the entire universe was his subject matter

A unique poet-painter

Remembering J. Swaminathan, who brought ‘something of the revolutionary’s ruthlessness into art’

Why and how we eat

Paul Rozin explains how the sense of taste and appetite is shaped by the brain

Love and loss in Mumbai

Vrushali Telang’s latest novel is a homage to her city’s erstwhile organised criminal era and the irresistible lure of a toxic romance

Graphic novel in Booker Prize longlist for the first time

U.S. cartoonist Nick Drnaso’s novel “Sabrina” is on a list featuring four debut works and four authors under the age of 30 besides Golden Booker winner Michael Ondaatje. Seven of the 13 authors are women.

‘Let’s not rake it up again,’ says muzzled author of ‘Meesha’

S. Hareesh withdraws his debut novel after the ultra right-wing relentlessly heckles and threatens him and his family

An extremely honest telling

In his book “The End of Eddy”, Edouard Louis opens up about growing up in a family stewed in violence, alcoholism and racism

Memories like the fragrance of a flower

M.N. Vyasa Rao, well-known Kannada film lyricist, poet and novelist, passed away last weekend. The affectionate, affable writer had a huge circle of friends who cherished his company and warmth

A daunting exercise

Celebrated multilingual poet Suhail Kakorvi attempts to decode the textual gravity of Mirza Ghalib’s poetry

Lest we forget...

Sprinkled with engrossing details, Rana Safvi’s “The Forgotten Cities of Delhi” explores the Capital’s layered past like a personal journey

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