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A multitalented artist, Ila Arun is well-known for her work in the film and music industry. She is a folk singer, actor, writer, playwright, music composer, lyricist, and folk dancer, and is also the voice behind the iconic song Choli Ke Peeche Kya Hai. In this conversation, Arun discusses her recent autobiography, Parde Ke Peechhey , co-authored with Anjula Bedi, as well as her creative journey.

The award-winning actor, comedian, children's writer and television personality has won numerous publishing awards for his bestselling children's books that have been translated into 53 languages and have sold over 60 million copies worldwide

Prachi Gupta is an award-winning journalist and former senior reporter at Jezebel . She won the Writer's Guild Award for her investigative essay, Stories About My Brother . Her work has been featured in The Best American Magazine Writing 2021 and has appeared in The Atlantic , The Washington Post , Marie Claire , Salon , Elle , and more. In this conversation, Gupta discusses her deeply persona...

Dr Mannix has trained and worked in palliative medicine for more than 30 years in the north of England. She has worked in hospices, patients homes and in hospital palliative care teams

Dr Mannix has trained and worked in palliative medicine for more than 30 years in the north of England. She has worked in hospices, patients homes and in hospital palliative care teams

In this engaging conversation, award-winning translator and writer Shahnaz Habib discusses her debut book, Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel , which won the prestigious 2024 New American Voices Award. Shahnaz is widely recognised for her translations of Malayalam novels, including Jasmine Days and Al Arabian Novel Factory . Notably, she received the 2018 JCB Prize for Literature for h...

Debut writer and academic Minakshi Dewan is a researcher and writer who possesses extensive experience in health, gender and community mobilisation with grassroots and international development organisations. She talks to TOI Bookmark about her nonfiction book, 'The Final Farewell'

Amitava Kumar is the author of several books of nonfiction and four novels. His novel 'Immigrant, Montana' was on the best of the year lists at the New Yorker, the New York Times, and on President Obama's list of favourite books of 2018. He discusses his novel, 'My Beloved Life'

Award-winning writer Hisham Matar is the author of 'In The Country of Men', which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and 'Anatomy of a Disappearance'. His most recent book, published in January 2024, is the novel 'My Friends'

Jeet is a poet, novelist, librettist and musician. The first instalment of his Bombay trilogy, Narcopolis, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and won the DSC Prize. His book of poems, These Errors Are Correct, won the Sahitya Academy Award

Charlotte Wood is the author of seven novels and three books of nonfiction. She discusses her novel, Stone Yard Devotional, which was shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize

Siddhartha Deb, author of several award-winning novels, including Point of Return —a New York Times Notable Book of the Year—and An Outline of the Republic , which was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, discusses the inspiration and story behind his latest novel, The Light at the End of the World .

Chokshi's New York Times bestselling series include The Star-Touched Queen, The Gilded Wolves and Aru Shah and the End of Time. The latter was named as one of the top 100 fantasy books of all time by Time magazine

The award-winning journalist has spent the past decade travelling the world from Silicon Valley to Seoul, writing about the people, startups and corporations shaping cutting-edge technologies

Acclaimed writer and Harvard lecturer Claire Messud tells the story of a family displaced in the 1940s and 1950s by historical events in her latest novel, This Strange Eventful History . The novel was longlisted for the Booker Prize, marking the second time Messud has received this honour.

Historian Margrit Pernau discuss her latest publication, Jamia's Aapa Jaan: The Many Lifeworlds of Gerda Philipsborn. Dr Pernau is senior researcher at the Centre for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. She is also extraordinary professor at Freie University

Dr Schwartz has published over 500 scientific articles and chapters on neurosurgery. And he has lectured around the world, from Bogota to Vienna to Mumbai, on new minimally invasive surgical techniques that he has helped develop. He also runs a basic science laboratory devoted to epilepsy research

The legendary writer discusses her latest novella, Rosarita, the similarities between India and Mexico, and her fascination with exploring characters' past

Former diplomat and acclaimed author Vikas Swarup discusses his latest novel, The Girl With the Seven Lives, and talks about India's changing social landscape

Award-winning writer Ilyon Woo is the author of The Great Divorce, and her most recent book, Master Slave Husband Wife, won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2024

Antonia Lloyd-Jones has translated works by many of Poland's leading contemporary novelists and reportage authors. She has also translated biographies, essays, crime fiction, poetry and children's books. Her translation of Drive Your Plough over the Bones of the Dead by 2018 Nobel Prize laureate Olga Tokarczuk was shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize

Dr Mathew is a retired bureaucrat who has held key positions over a three-decade career in the Indian Administrative Service. He discusses his recently published biography of the late industrialist Ratan Tata. It's called Ratan Tata: A Life

Samantha Harvey is the author of many novels and a work of non-fiction. She has won the Booker Prize for Orbital. It is about six astronauts on the International Space Station. The story is told over a period of 24 hours

Vasudhendra has written about 13 books in Kannada, of which a few have been translated into English. His books in English are Mohanaswamy, a collection of short stories, Tejo Tungabhadra, a historical fiction novel, and another collection of stories called The Unforgiving City

Dr Lahiri is currently professor of history at Ashoka University. Prior to this, she was at the University of Delhi. She is the author of multiple books, all to do with the history of Indian archaeology