The Middle Stage

This essay appeared last weekend in the New York Times as "Fashioning Narrative Pleasures From Narcotic Ones" No writer in mod...

In a famous essay published in 1990, the poet and literary scholar AK Ramanujan asked the question, “Is there an Indian way of thinking?” ...

My story "Dnyaneshwar Kulkarni Changes His Name" appears this month in the first-anniversary issue of Out of Print , an Indian l...

This essay appears today in The National. It is much easier to establish what literary genius is in fic...

This essay appeared last weekend in The National . One of the minor arts of the novel is the art of the title, of a word or a phrase that...

My review of the Kannada novelist UR Ananthamurthy's novel Bharathipura , published earlier this year in a translation by Susheela Puni...

Here are some things I've been reading recently that I thought I'd share with you: "After The Fall" , the historian Rama...

Although they are asked, more frequently than anything else, if their books are autobiographical, all writers of fiction (and indeed all goo...

This essay appeared last weekend in The National .   “Is there a place for me in some part of your life?” a married man asks a woman in “Ma...

I write to you from a slightly tilted position on the sloping streets, under the low-hanging clouds, and above the twitters of the early-ris...

Over the last month I've been reading Songs of Kabir , a new translation of some of Kabir's poems by the Indian poet Arvind Krishna...

Trinity College, Cambridge is, along with Hindu College, Delhi, one of two places where I learnt how to read and to write. A slightly diffe...

“It was not my muscles she was weighing up, but my soul,” decides Peter, one of the characters in Sandor Marai’s novel Portraits of a Marri...