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Ravikant Kisana is an academic and the author of ‘Meet the Savarnas’. He also podcasts and performs live under the moniker Buffalo Intellectual.

Mirza Waheed is a novelist and essayist born and raised in Kashmir and living in London. His debut novel, ‘The Collaborator’, was a finalist for the Guardian First Book Award and the Shakti Bhatt Prize and was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. His second novel, ‘The Book of Gold Leaves’, was shortlisted for the DSC Prize and longlisted for the Folio Prize. His third novel, ‘Tell Her Everyt...

Anne is a Norwegian urban developer, curator and cultural producer with an international profile in art in public space. With more than 20 years' experience across art,  architecture and civic infrastructure,  she specialises in large-scale site specific projects rooted in place, time and community

Daniel Rensch is an international chess master, published author and chief chess officer at chess.com, the leading platform for playing and learning chess. In this conversation, he discusses his memoir, ‘Dark Squares’.

Nussaibah Younis is a peace building practitioner and a globally recognized expert on contemporary Iraq. Younis has advised the Iraqi government on proposed programs to de radicalize women affiliated with the ISIS. She was a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC where she directed the task force on the future of Iraq and offered strategic advice to US government agencies on Iraq...

David Szalay is the author of ‘Spring’, ‘The Innocent’, and ‘London and the Southeast’, for which he was awarded the Betty Trask and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prizes. ‘All That Man Is’ got the Gordon Burn Prize and Plimpton Prize for Fiction, and was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In this conversation, he discusses his Booker Prize 2025 winning novel, ‘Flesh’. 

Amitav Ghosh is the critically acclaimed author of a widerange of fiction as well as non-fiction titles – including Shadow Lines , The Glass Palace , The Hungry Tide , The Great Derangement , Smoke and Ashes, and Wild Fictions . Ghosh’s works have been translated into more than 30 languages, and he has been felicitated with literary awards across the globe. In 2019, Ghosh was named one of the most...

Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989 at CERN in Switzerland. Since then, he has been a tireless advocate for shared standards, open web access, and the power of individuals on the web. He was named in Time magazine's list of the most important people of the 20th century. He has been the recipient of several honorary degrees and awards, including the Seoul Peace Prize and the...

Maha Khan Phillips, born in Karachi, Pakistan, is the authorof Beautiful From This Angle, The Mystery of the Aagnee Ruby and The Curse of Mohenjodaro . Phillips is a multiple award winning financial journalist and editor who writes across a number of different journals and magazines. She lives in London with her family and frequently visits Pakistan where she has a keen interest in exploring archa...

Pallavi Aiyar is a foreign correspondent, columnist and author. She has spent over two decades reporting from China, Belgium, Japan, Indonesia and Spain. She's the author of eight books, including ‘Smoke and Mirrors’, ‘Punjabi Parmesan’ and ‘Babies and Bylines’. Her latest work is ‘Travels in the Other Place: Pursuing the Self in Eight Acts’. 

Deepa Anappara is the critically acclaimed author of Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line , a debut novel named one of the best of 2020 by the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, The Guardian and NPR. Anappara is the winner of the 2021 Edgar Award for and shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature. She is a former journalist in India reporting on poverty, education and religious violence. Her...

Anuradha Roy is the author of five novels. Her first, ‘An Atlas of Impossible Longing’, was translated into 16 languages. ‘Sleeping on Jupiter’, her third novel, won the DSC Prize for Fiction 2016 and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015. ‘All the Lives We Never Lived’ won the 2022 Sahitya Akademi Award and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. 'Called by the Hil...

Rudraneil Sengupta is an independent journalist based in Delhi who writes for various international and national media outlets, including the Times of India, the BBC. Sengupta has also worked on documentary films for Al Jazeera. He is the author of Enter the Dangal: Travels Through India's Wrestling Landscape - a non-fiction account that offers a look into India's wrestling culture. In thi...

Megha Majumdar's new novel, 'A Guardian and a Thief’, is an Oprah's Book Club selection, a finalist for the National Book Award and the Kirkus Prize, and on the longlist for the American Library Association's Andrew Carnegie Medal. Her first book, 'A Burning’, was nominated for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize and the Carnegie M...

Philippe Sands is a practicing barrister, a professor of law at University College London and visiting professor of law at Harvard. He is an acclaimed author with his body of work including The Ratline, East West Street, The Last Colony , among others. His latest work, 38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia , has been released in India by Hachette.  In this epi...

Phil Craig is a bestselling author and multiple award-winning filmmaker. The former RAF cadet pilot built his career working for the iconic British TV series ‘World in Action’ and ‘Panorama’. In this conversation, he discusses his latest book, 1945: The Reckoning. 

Dr. Victoria Bateman is an economic historian, author and historical consultant who has published books on economic history, feminist economics and gender inequality. She holds a Masters degree in Economic and Social History and a DPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford, and is well-known for her public speeches covering topics such as economic growth, capitalism, gender inequality, and B...

Jason Roberts is the author of A Sense of the World , which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and named a best book of the year in 2006 by multiple outlets such as the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Kirkus Reviews, etc. In this conversation, he discusses his recent book, ‘Every Living Thing’, which has won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the PEN/EO Wils...

Ken Follett is one of the world’s best-loved authors, having sold more than 198 million copies of his 38 books, in over 80 countries and across 40 languages. His first major success came with the publication of ‘Eye of the Needle’ in 1978. In this conversation, he discusses his latest novel, ‘Circle of Days’. 

Sanjoy K Roy is an entrepreneur of the arts and managingdirector of Teamwork Arts, which produces over 30 highly acclaimed performing arts, visual arts and literary festivals across 40 cities in countries such as Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Egypt, Singapore, UK and USA, including theworld's largest literary gathering, the annual Jaipur Literature Festival. In this episode of TOI Bookma...

Namita Devidayal is a journalist based in Mumbai, a trained Indian classical singer, and author of ‘The Music Room’, ‘Aftertaste’ and ‘The Sixth String of Vilayat Khan’. In this conversation, she discusses her most recent book, ‘Tangerine: How to Read the Upanishads Without Giving Up Coffee’, published by Westland Books.

Manish Gaekwad is a journalist who has contributed to several publications, including Scroll and The Hindu . He co-wrote the Netflix series  She  with Imtiaz Ali, consulted on the script for Badhaai Do, and served as a senior script creative at Red Chillies Entertainment. Gaekwad made his fictional debut with his novel Lean Days, which was followed-up by his book The Last Courtesan: Writing My Mot...

Zahid Rafiq is a writer living in Srinagar. He did his BA at Kashmir University, then went on to study journalism as a Fulbright scholar at University of California, Berkeley. As a journalist, he has written for Indian and international publications, including The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, BBC, Vice, Al Jazeera, Foreign Policy, etc. Rafiq completed his MFA in Fiction at Cornell Un...

Gautam Bhatia is a speculative fiction writer, reviewer andeditor. He is the author of The Wall and The Horizon , a science fiction duology published by Harper Collins India. His latest novel The Sentence was a Locust magazine recommended read and is a finalist for the 2025 Ignite Award. Bhatia is also a constitutional lawyer who has published commentaries on the Constitution. In this episode of T...

Amitav Ghosh reveals in this 2023 interview how opium trade shaped modern capitalism and created vast fortunes across continents. From American railways to prestigious universities and global banking institutions, Ghosh uncovers how drug money built the foundations of today's economic world order