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Bhaskar Chattopadhyay talks about his latest novel

Mini Anthikad Chhibber

The author's fourth whodunit, 'Best Served Cold', is set in a beautiful tea estate in the Dooars region of Bengal

Assamese writer and journalist Homen Borgohain | Photo credit: Facebook

Assamese litterateur Homen Borgohain passes away at 88

Special Correspondent

The Sahitya Akademi awardee was discharged from the Guwahati Medical College and Hospital on May 7 after testing negative for COVID-19

Aparna Devagiri

Interview This book by Aparna Devagiri is a guide for working women in a complicated world

Aparna Devagiri’s ‘The Professional Woman’s Handbook Navigating Choices for Success’ is an accessible guide to career shifts, body image, and more

Writer, actor Madampu Kunjukuttan passes away

Mini Muringatheri The 81-year-old tested positive for COVID-19 after he was admitted to a private hospital in Thrissur

Writer Rohini S Rajagopal with her son Advaith

Rohini S Rajagopal’s book recounts her battle with infertility

Saraswathy Nagarajan The book, ‘What’s a Lemon Squeezer Doing In My Vagina’, she hopes, will inspire more women to write about pregnancy and bust the myths and taboos around it

Illustration: R. Rajesh

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

Carlo Pizzati 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

Interview Health

Interview The anxiety pandemic

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Interview Books

Riva Razdan: Hope is a precursor to joy

Kerala freedom fighter pens memoir at 100

Matthew McConaughey interview: ‘I wanted to get rid of the filters’

In Conversation Movies

Life, one script at a time: Vidhu Vinod Chopra on his new book, ‘Unscripted’

Books

Writer Sharanya Manivannan discusses her children’s book Mermaids In The Moonlight

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‘Harry Potter’ actor Evanna Lynch announces memoir

Sunday Quiz | Easy like Sunday morning — Feb. 14, 2021

This week’s quiz is about things that happened on February 14.

Filmmaker Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari turns author with ‘Mapping Love’

The 41-year-old director’s book will be published by Rupa Publications in May this year.

Sunday Quiz | Easy like Sunday morning — Feb. 7, 2021

What greater gift than the love of a cat: Charles Dickens

The Parsis who pedalled across the world

‘The Bicycle Diaries’ details how 12 cyclists set out as global explorers from 1923 to 1942

Refugees are the heroes in Paro Anand’s ‘Nomad’s Land’

In her book for young adults, Paro Anand introduces the world of displaced communities and their search for boundless horizons and hope through the story of two schoolgirls

Girish Karnad memoir in English to be out in May

"This Life at Play: A Memoir by Girish Karnad" translated by Srinath Perur, will be released on the director's 83rd birth anniversary on May 19 by Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

Meet Amanda Gorman, the star poet from Biden-Harris inauguration

The 22-year-old, who is the first youth poet laureate, recited her poem 'The Hill We Climb' at Washington D.C.

Lee and Andrew Child talk about collaborating on ‘The Sentinel’

After 24 wildly-successful novels that has made Jack Reacher a household name, Lee talks of his reasons for handing over to his brother

Renowned writer Ved Mehta, who took India to Americans, dies at 86

Mehta was a staff writer for ‘The New Yorker’ magazine for 33 years. His 24 books included volumes of reportage on India

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Neil Sheehan dies at 84

His account of the Vietnam War, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam, won the coveted prize in 1988.

Doyen of Urdu literature Shamsur Faruqi passes away

Best known for his magnum opus Kai Chaand The Sare Asmaan written at the age of 70

The Indian horror story: on Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India by Blaft Publications

There is so much we don’t know about the supernatural. So, Blaft Publications’ Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India takes you where most fear to tread

Sugathakumari — The poet of silent valleys and silenced voices

Sugathakumari stood for nature conservation and the cause of the downtrodden through her poetry and her presence

Author Aparna Karthikeyan talks about the joys of being a pet parent

Aparna Karthikeyan, author of ‘Woof! Adventures by the Sea’, on being a pet parent to indie dogs

To be a writer, you simply need to write: Anna Todd on ‘After We Collided’

Anna Todd, author and co-screenwriter of the recently-released romantic drama After We Collided, talks about her journey from publishing stories on a storytelling platform to becoming a bestseller

The name’s not Bond: John le Carré (1931-2020)

John le Carré, master of the spy novel, chronicler of our times

Anthony Horowitz talks about 'Moonflower Murders'

The author says his Susan Ryeland novels involve a lot of thinking, notes and time to make for an easy read

'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' novelist John le Carre dies aged 89

Le Carre was known for combining a terse but lyrical prose with the kind of complexity expected in literary fiction.

I hope my retelling is as far from ‘Amar Chitra Katha’ as Kashmir is from Kanyakumari: Arshia Sattar

The translator talks about adapting Mahabharata for children while retaining the epic’s moral complexities

‘I’m not as fast as Stephen King’: Ernest Cline explains why Ready Player Two comes after a decade-long wait

Ernest Cline says his novels are elaborate, like puzzle boxes. Which explains why Ready Player Two comes after a decade-long wait

Building blocks of success: Guy Raz’s book on what makes a business idea click

American podcaster Guy Raz gives readers an in-depth look into what it takes to make a brand big, in his book ‘How I Built This’

India’s places of worship and their different foods, all in one book

Food is an inherent part of India’s places of worship. In her new book, Shoba Narayan delves into the making of prasadams, langars and more

India has to go for more globalisation: Fareed Zakaria

The journalist and political commentator on capitalism in a post-pandemic future and an emerging U.S.-China bipolar world order

Master of the labyrinth: S. Hareesh

The works of S. Hareesh, who won the JCB Prize 2020, teem with characters who are as much from Kerala as from Russian folktales or Latin American novels

Inside the vault of Britain’s secret service agency

Historian John Ferris walks us through the major turning points of espionage technologies, and why we should want to know more about them

‘Was this censorship?’: Noam Chomsky, Vijay Prashad ask Tata Lit Live after it cancels their discussion

The issues about the Citizenship Amendment Act, Adivasi killing, the industrialisation of indigenous lands and environmental degradation were to be discussed during the session.

‘I didn’t want to write parody; I wanted to write in parallel’: Ben Schott

British writer Ben Schott tells us how bringing Jeeves and Wooster back to life is a Plum job

Rick Riordan talks of Apollo’s final trial

The 'Trials of Apollo' and 'Percy Jackson and the Olympians' author says human beings have the capacity to be great heroes, but can also become the bad guys quite easily

‘What can I do to die better? Live urgently’: Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi

Author Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi spent eight months alone in a village in the pandemic. Some observations from his diary

Balli Kaur Jaswal talks about her novels

The Singapore-based author says one way to understand the stories of nations politically, socially and historically, is to make them personal

Rajputs with the golden guns

Robert Elgood’s ‘The Maharaja of Jodhpur’s Guns’ is a tour de force of the blood and thunder of Marwar royalty through its extraordinary collection of firearms

Bishan Sahai, Ruchi Ranjan and Ishika Ranjan on their book in drabble format

Varying emotions and experiences across three generations of writers encompass ‘Our World — A Symphony of Drabbles — By Three Generations’, written in drabble format

'Like a student eager to impress the teacher': Obama writes about Rahul Gandhi in his memoir

Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh too are referenced in ‘The Promised Land’.

T.N. varsity withdraws Arundhati Roy’s book after ABVP’s objection

“Walking with the Comrades” is based on Ms. Roy’s visit to Maoist hideouts.

Kamala Harris books surge in popularity after election

Harris made history as the first Black woman to become Vice President.

Malayalam writer S. Hareesh bags 2020 JCB Prize for Literature

The book, which is the author’s debut novel, is a contemporary classic mixing magic, myth and metaphor into a tale of far-reaching resonance.

Down Daffodil Lane: on the newly-launched children’s publishing house

As another children’s publishing house launches, a look at how the industry is growing

Rachna Bisht Rawat’s ‘Insomnia’ is an engaging collection of tales about the Indian Army

‘Stop him’, she said hoarsely. ‘I have seen those shoes before.’The lines end the chilling Home Alone, a story in Rachna Bisht Rawat’s latest book

Shortz is T20 version of thrillers: Author Ravi Subramanian on his latest work

Author Ravi Subramanian talks about his latest work — a series of crime novellas, which he’s writing with unpublished authors — among other things

Writer Paul Zacharia chosen for Ezhuthachan Puraskaram

Chosen for the award for his contributions to Malayalam literature and thought for the past fifty years: Culture Minister

Author Krishna Udayasankar on 'The Cowherd Prince', the prequel to her trilogy series 'The Aryavarta Chronicles'

Krishna Udayasankar dives into the origin story of Govinda in ‘The Cowherd Prince'

Nobel Laureate Elfriede Jelinek on how she uses theatre as a licence to seize speech

Her latest play, ‘On the Royal Road’, a scathing indictment of ‘Trump the Emperor’, will hit Indian shelves in November

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