MUMBAI: From being a partner in a successful law firm to taking up employment  in a global corporation can sound strange to ...

Kiran believes that readers now demand too much of books, expecting literature to always be so gripping ... by the Sea as part of their O’Level syllabus. Her mother Anita Desai is now 87 years old but ...

William Dalrymple’s enthusiasm for the 18th Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF), starting January 30, is contagious as the ...

William Dalrymple's enthusiasm for the 18th Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF), starting January 30, is contagious as the ...

I lost my mother on 15 January. Her notebooks revealed to me the restless often tortured quest that Indian women embarked on ...

Arguing that Indian English writers – Rushdie’s anthology began with Jawaharlal Nehru and ended with Kiran Desai – were better ... All the books discussed in this book have been translated ...

After years of holding back Booker-winning author Salman Rushdie finally consented to let his dear friend Deepa Mehta film ...

You don’t have to be a psychoanalyst to guess the equation between Orhan Pamuk and Kiran Desai. Pamuk is funny ... The light through the window in her room is an author’s light. The silence, an author ...

Following this, acclaimed Indian author Kiran Desai, winner of the 2006 Booker Prize for ‘The Inheritance of Loss,’ engaged in a compelling conversation with Sri Lankan writer Ashok Ferrey. The day’s ...