Finally, you buy a ticket to Kintbury, a village in Berkshire, where Vu and her friends are spending their holidays working for a farm. You get off the train at Kintbury. No one else gets off; it&rsq...

11) City of Incident: A Novel in Twelve Parts by Annie Zaidi (Aleph Book Company) Author of Prelude to a Riot, Annie Zaidi strings together the stories of six men and six women in a metro city and th...

On a cold evening from Mussoorie, Ruskin Bond logged on to Zoom for an interactive session with little ones at Storyteller Bookstore to discuss his new book The Tunnel. Getting a lot of writing done i...

Seems like you’ll have a book a month! Well, If I read a book a day I ought to be able to write a book a month (laughs)!  Have you made a New Year’s resolution?  Gosh, I forgo...

As Debanjan Chakrabarti, director British Council East and North-East India, rightly stated at the beginning of the session, the complex history of the UK and India comes alive seamlessly in Anita Ana...

Muskaan, an initiative by Prabha Khaitan Foundation, brought the evergreen author Ruskin Bond to interact with members during a session hosted online on July 30. Never one to disappoint, Bond was in c...

The novella set him off as a writer but the process wasn’t as immediate as it appears in our psyche in hindsight. Two more years passed before he could establish himself as a writer and he expre...

This book by Canberra writer Zoya Patel is composed as a collection of essays, and reflects on her life as a Fijian-Indian migrant in Australia and how multi-racial identities and systemic racism make...

A cemetery is not a cheery place to be in, more so in these despairing times. But that is exactly where I landed up on a cold and windy December morning, a friend in tow. The friend was excited; as a...

Ruskin Bond is rather saddened that he won’t be able to spend this winter in Calcutta at the Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet in association with The Telegraph because of the pandemic. “Ma...