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Marry Indian, save Russia

Author Maria Arbatova feels Indian bachelors should be imported into Russia as they seem to be ideal spouses.

Do you know Hari Kunzru?

If you don't, you're missing out on a literary sensation who has just released his third book. Shaikh Ayaz tells more.

‘Writers are like scavengers'

Indra Sinha, shortlisted for this year’s Booker, speaks about his latest novel and treating humans. Vijay Dutt reports.

Elie Wiesel wants to sensitise everyone

Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, who is always in the middle of writing a novel, is also an avid campaigner for human rights in Darfur.

The name's Bond

India's best-loved children's writer talks of his forthcoming books and the book scene in India to Sonal Srivastava.

Rowling'll make Potter seek missing child

J K Rowling is helping in the hunt for Madeleine McCann by putting the child's face on bookmarks of the final Potter book.

The return of the gamebooks

A legend in the world of gaming, Ian Livingstone talks about his fantasies. Elizabeth Kuruvilla tells more.

'Don’t shoot! They weren’t scheming Orientalists!'

In the preface to writings by European travellers to Mughal India, William Dalrymple defends the pre-colonial writers.

In Ram's rajya

Ramachandra Guha talks about how he became a historian, the primacy of archival voices and where Nehru failed India, to Indrajit Hazra.

Writer Kartar Singh Duggal joins immortals of Indian literature

Eminent Punjabi writer Kartar Singh Duggal was conferred the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship on Saturday evening.

A chronicler of 1857 par excellence

Khwaja Hasan Nizami, though born nearly two decades after the 1857 revolt, devoted his life to chronicling the event, as sedulously as a journalist and a historian.

‘Write to please just one person’

Kalpish Ratna remembers a day in New York, in 1999,  with Kurt Vonnegut.
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