Author and journalist Sanjoy Hazarika speaks to Samrat Choudhury about his book, River Traveller:Journeys On The Tsangpo-Brahmaputra From Tibet To The Bay Of Bengal. Together they trace the 2,900-kilometre journey of the Brahmaputra, from the Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibet to […]
In an interview with Adrija Roychowdhury for The Indian Express, Rajmohan Gandhi talks about why Mahatma Gandhi appealed to James Lawson, the subject of his latest biography, who trained a whole generation of American activists in the methods nonviolent resistance. […]
Is Delhi truly haunted? In his latest conversation with The Indian Express, author Eric Chopra revisits Jamali Kamali, Feroz Shah Kotla, and Khooni Darwaza, unpacking myths, memories, and history from his new book Ghosted: Delhi’s Haunted Monuments
In this illuminating conversation with The Wire, author Pronoti Dutta discusses what makes Mumbai’s food history different from other cities.
At the launch of ‘Reimagining India’s Economy: The Road to a More Equitable Society’, author Arun Maira is joined by Dr V. Anantha Nageswaran, Chief Economic Advisor, Government of India, and Sunil Kant Munjal, Chairman, The Hero Enterprise for an […]
Catch celebrated food historian and raconteur Pushpesh Pant as he traces Delhi’s culinary journey from the Mahabharata’s Indraprastha—the first city of Delhi—to the present day, through the Sultanate, the Mughal Empire and the British Raj. He also follows the rise […]
Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri quizzes award-winning author Upamanyu Chatterjee about his writing styles, books, novellas, the bureaucracy and much more at the launch of The Hush of the Uncaring Sea. Chatterjee won the JCB Prize for Literature for his last novel, […]
In this conversation with The Tribune’s Seema Sachdeva, food critic and historian Pushpesh Pant talks about his motivation and the process of writing his book, From the King’s Table to Street Food. The book uses Pant’s thorough knowledge of food […]
In this intriguing and revealing Ted Talk, Jono Lineen, mountaineer, traveller, curator and author of Into the Heart of the Himalayas, talks about his treks through the Himalayas (from Pakistan all the way to Nepal) and how walking helped him […]
Renowned poet and novelist, Vikram Seth sat down with BBC’s Sanjoy Majumder to discuss his new book, The Hanuman Chalisa, a translation of Tulsidas’ devotional hymn by the same name.