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Murzban Shroff is a Mumbai-based writer whose fiction has appeared in over 75 literary journals across the USA and UK, including The Gettysburg Review , The Minnesota Review , The Saturday Evening Post , The Chicago Tribune , Blitmag , and World Literature Today . A recipient of multiple literary awards and seven Pushcart Prize nominations, his debut story collection Breathless in Bombay was short...

Professors Anjali Nerlekar and Ulka Anjaria discuss their co-edited volume, the Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures, in this episode of TOI Bookmark. The two scholars – who have extensive backgrounds in multilingual Indian modernisms, South Asian literature, and associated research fields – reflect on the inherent complexitiesinvolved in the term ‘Indian literature’ and the challenges pos...

Andaleeb Wajid is a hybrid author, having published nearly 50 novels in the past 15 years. She enjoys writing in a number of different genres such as young adult romance and horror. Her YA novel Asmara Summer was adapted for Screen to become Dil Dosti Dilemma on Amazon prime and other works are in the process of being optioned or adapted. Her YA novel the Henna Startup was the winner of the Neve L...

Viet Thanh Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American professor and novelist best known for his debut novel The Sympathizer , for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2016. His latest work, A Man of Two Faces: A memoir, a history, a memorial , follows his parents’ journey growing up in a divided Vietnam and later having to flee their chosen country when South Vietnam was defeated in 1975.

Tim Wigmore is a sports writer for The Daily Telegraph and the author of several acclaimed books on cricket. His latest work, Test: A History , is a narrative history of Test cricket based on years of research and dozens of new interviews. He is also the co-author of Crickonomics and Cricket 2.0: Inside the T20 Revolution , which won the Wisden Book of the Year and The Daily Telegraph Cricket Book...

Distinguished academic, professor Harish Trivedi delves into the genesis of his Sahitya Academy edited anthology Indian Literary Historiography. Trivedi has a background in English and Sanskrit, and a PhD from University of Wales, UK. He has held teaching positions at institutions such as the University of Delhi, Banaras Hindu University, St Stephen's College, and has spoken at over thirty uni...

Newly minted 2025 International Booker Prize winners, Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi, for Heartlamp speak to TOI Bookmark. Banu is an activist and lawyer who was inspired to write stories by the experiences of women who came to her seeking help

Bothayna Al-Essa is a best-selling Kuwaiti author of nearly a dozen novels and several children's books. She is also the founder of Taqwin, a bookshop and publishing house known for its critically acclaimed titles. Her most recent novel, The Book Censor’s Library , won the Sharjah Award for Creativity in the Novel category in 2021 and was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Best Books of 2024. It...

Bothayna Al Essa is a best-selling Kuwaiti author of nearly a dozen novels and several children's books. She is also the founder of Taqwin, a bookshop and publishing house known for its critically acclaimed titles. Her most recent novel, The Book Censor’s Library , won the Sharjah Award for Creativity in the Novel category in 2021 and was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Best Books of 2024. It...

Gopalkrishna Gandhi is a former administrator, diplomat, and distinguished scholar. He has translated several works, including the Tirukkural and Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy , and is also the author of a novel, Refuge , and a play, Dara Shukoh . Currently, he serves as distinguished professor at Ashoka University. In this conversation, Gandhi discusses his memoir, The Undying: A Personal Hist...

Ranjit Lal is the author of around 50 books, fiction and non-fiction for children and adults who are children. His abiding interest is in natural history, birds, animals and insects, and this is reflected in many of his books

Mr Perumal Murugan is a renowned writer, scholar, and literary chronicler. He has authored 12 novels, ten of which have been translated into English, including the widely acclaimed One Part Woman , A Lonely Harvest , Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat , and Pyre . He has received several prestigious literary honors, including the Kiriyama Prize in 2005 and the JCB Prize for Literature in 2023....

Prof Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fates of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents. Prof Gurna is emeritus professor of English and post-colonial literatures at the University of Kent

Award-winning British novelist and screenwriter David Nicholls is the best-selling author of many books, most notably 'One Day' and 'Us'

Described as one of New Zealand's greatest living writers, the author discusses her forthcoming novel, The Book of Guilt, a compelling work of dystopian fiction

Dr Siobhan Lambert-Hurley is a cultural historian of modern South Asia with particular interests in women, gender and Islam. She has written on education, social and political organisations, Indian princely states, the culture of travel, missionaries, personal narratives, and most recently, food 

Ranjeet Pratap Singh is one of the founders and the CEO of Pratilipi, the largest Indian language storytelling platform across multiple formats, including online literature, audio stories, podcasts, comics, and traditional publishing. The online literature products have over 15 million stories whichare published in 12 Indian languages

Patrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning journalist and bestselling author, known for his work as a staff writer at The New Yorker . He has authored five books, including the critically acclaimed Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty , which won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction in 2021. His book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland won the...

Patrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning journalist and bestselling author, known for his work as a staff writer at The New Yorker . He has authored five books, including the critically acclaimed Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty , which won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction in 2021. His book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland won the...

Tan Twan Eng is an award-winning author born in Penang, Malaysia, who divides his time between Kuala Lumpur and Cape Town. His debut novel, The Gift of Rain , was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2007, while his second novel, The Garden of Evening Mists , was shortlisted for the same honor. The Garden of Evening Mists went on to win the Man Asian Literary Prize and the Walter Scott Prize in 2013...

Tan Twan Eng is an award-winning author born in Penang, Malaysia, who divides his time between Kuala Lumpur and Cape Town. His debut novel, The Gift of Rain , was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2007, while his second novel, The Garden of Evening Mists , was shortlisted for the same honor. The Garden of Evening Mists went on to win the Man Asian Literary Prize and the Walter Scott Prize in 2013...

Dr. Nalin Mehta is the Dean of the School of Modern Media at UPES and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. Previously, he served as the Executive Editor of The Times of India Online. Dr. Mehta is the author of five bestselling and critically acclaimed books. In the second part of this two-part conversation, Mehta discusses India’s di...

Dr. Nalin Mehta is the Dean of the School of Modern Media at UPES and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. Previously, he served as the Executive Editor of The Times of India Online. Dr. Mehta is the author of five bestselling and critically acclaimed books. In the first part of this two-part conversation, Mehta discusses India’s dig...

Santanu Bhattacharya is the author of One Small Voice , one of the Observer's Best Debut Novels of 2023. Bhattacharya studied at the University of Oxford and the National University of Singapore. He is the recipient of the 2023 Desmond Elliott Prize residency, the 2021 Mo Siewcharran Prize, the Life Writing Prize, and the London Writer's Prize. In this second part of a two-part conversatio...

Santanu Bhattacharya is the author of One Small Voice , one of the Observer's Best Debut Novels of 2023. Bhattacharya studied at the University of Oxford and the National University of Singapore. He is the recipient of the 2023 Desmond Elliott Prize residency, the 2021 Mo Siewcharran Prize, the Life Writing Prize, and the London Writer's Prize. In this first part of a two-part conversation, Bhatta...