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The City and its Layers: An interview with Ruchir Joshi on GREAT EASTERN HOTEL
Q&A: Ruchir Joshi speaks about Great Eastern Hotel—a novel of changing times and changing minds—about Calcutta, and his inspirations from art and memory. By Amritesh Mukherjee
Flow of Conversation: Zahir Mirza’s podcast from Kerala’s waterways
Interview: On “Float with Boatcast”, Zahir Mirza takes his guests on a cruise through lakes, rivers, and seas to discuss topics of interest on Kerala and beyond. By Nileena Sunil
“Break the Barriers!” – An Interview with Usha Uthup
Continuing a five-decade-long singing career, Usha Uthup speaks about staying relevant with changing times, meme culture, radical self-love, and covering Miley Cyrus. By Deepansh Duggal
“I wanted the book to ‘sound’ and ‘feel’ like the internet” – Ria Chopra on NEVER LOGGED OUT
In Never Logged Out, Ria Chopra presents astute observations on growing up online, Gen Z, and the Indian internet, approaching these subjects with a writer’s restraint rather than a theorist’s grandiosity. By Sneha Bengani
Q&A: Fiction writer Salini Vineeth discusses the experiences and inspirations that shaped her journey
In a wide-ranging interview, Salini Vineeth speaks about profound questions of identity in her work, switching to literature after an engineering background, writing in multiple languages, and more. By Mitra Samal
Stories of Wisdom and Healing: An Interview with Faiqa Mansab
The Pakistani author Faiqa Mansab of The Sufi Storyteller speaks about women’s lives as messy, constrained, and politically situated, of motherhood as both power and erasure, about abandonment as a recurring human condition, and more. By Namrata
“Storytelling Saves My Life Every Day” – An Interview with Sanjana Ramachandran
Sanjana Ramachandran’s debut Famous Last Questions investigates the clash of the personal with the sociopolitical. The author speaks about masking and unmasking herself, finding comfort in contradictions, and the flawed institutions of marriage, relationships, and work. By Karan Madhok
“Revolutionary literature requires revolutionary politics”: An Interview with Meena Kandasamy
Acclaimed author Meena Kandasamy discusses the uncompromising and unapologetic resolve in her writing, confronting violence with art, and why activism is a form of love. By Saurabh Sharma
“Liberate poetry from the definition of poetry itself”: An Interview with Madhu Raghavendra
In a detailed conversation, poet Madhu Raghavendra speaks about his literary journey, finding space for politics in his poetics, the inspiration of art and bhakti in his work, and more. By Chittajit Mitra
“The more opposition I get, the more energy I get” – An Interview with Sudeep Chakravarty
Author and journalist Sudeep Chakravarty speaks about the stories that drive him, wandering across genres, and his Delhi-based latest work, Fallen City. By Amritesh Mukherjee
Where do we find a story? An interview with Snehaprava Das
Poet, author, and translator Snehaprava Das speaks to Mitra Samal about her storytelling process, how translation can enhance creativity, the authors that have inspired her, and more.
“I surrendered to the chaos”: An Interview with Tashan Mehta, author of MAD SISTERS OF ESI
“I was chasing this desire to pin down the inexplicable when I wrote Mad Sisters, but acknowledge that it is inexplicable. It sort-of grew in the novel, intwining with the cosmos and the idea of the sublime, and how the interpersonal is the tether that keeps us sane—and perhaps caged.” By Akankshya Abismruta
What’s in a name? India has a long history of rebranding cities, streets, and buildings to reflect the political influence of the time. Instead of this empty tokenism, Vipin Labroo argues for the country to shift priorities towards its more pressing concerns.