Name to know: Kanishk Tharoor

There’s a fair bit of travel involved in Kanishk Tharoor’s debut collection of short fiction, Swimmer Among The Stars: Stories, fuelled by the writer’s “far-reaching interests in social and cultural history”. From tracing an elephant’s journey across Morocco to imagining the epilogue to climate change, Tharoor traverses time and space in these brightly original stories. And he’s found… Continue reading Name to know: Kanishk Tharoor

In conversation with Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh dreads that time in between books. It’s maddening, he says, that period after a bout of intense labour is done and suddenly, your days are empty. (Except, of course, for being shortlisted for the biennial Man Booker International Prize, whose results will be announced this month. “It’s an honour just to be nominated,”… Continue reading In conversation with Amitav Ghosh

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