Mira Nair speaks to Madhu Trehan about her inspiration for making The Reluctant Fundamentalist, settlers and natives, creating a dialogue between two worlds, the Boston bombings, why it took her 5 years to make the film and more…

Shobhana Bhartia, Chairperson - Hindustan Times Group, speaks to Madhu Trehan about being forced to look more at the business than the editorial side of the paper, HT being a “mind product” and why HT is viewed as a supporter of the Congress and more...

Diana Eck speaks to Alpana Kishore about her upcoming book, the dichotomy of tradition and modernity within religious discourse, why religious uniformity is not essential for unity and more...

Rashna Imhasly-Gandhy speaks to Madhu Trehan about reading human behaviour through archetypes, why Sita is the real hero of the Ramayana, the feminine consciousness & the collective unconscious and more...

Zoe Heller speaks to Madhu Trehan about the repercussions of the scathing book reviews she wrote, what she thought of Joseph Anton, her nomination for ‘The Hatchet Job of the Year’, writing from the male perspective and more…

Jamil Ahmad, Pakistani author of the Wandering Falcon, speaks to Alpana Kishore about the tribes of the Frontier and Balochistan region, the powerful women of the tribes, the punishment for adultery, bride price, why Balochistan is the most attractive place he has served in and more…

Jeffrey Archer speaks to Abhinandan Sekhri about the Clifton Chronicles, why he’d rather be a storyteller than a writer, how he wrote a million words while in prison, his walk-on part in Bridget Jones’s Diary and spares some advice for novice writers.

Neelesh Misra speaks to Alpana Kishore about his radio show, telling stories, nostalgia, migration, the journey of Yaad Sheher – why he trademarked the name, future plans and how people see it as a real place, and more…

Manil Suri speaks to Anuvab Pal on the Death Of Vishnu, writing on Bombay, why it took him 7 years to write his second book, being influenced by Bollywood, the City Of Devi and more…

Kurdish American writer Laleh Khadivi speaks to Alpana Kishore on being a minority both in Iran and America, what ties you to the soil, what she misses about Iran, the sense of family, her suspicion of nationality, and the push of leaving and pull of curiosity and more…

Amit Chaudhuri speaks to Anuvab Pal on Calcutta – the book and the city, modernity, being addicted to the contradictory, Berlin, why he was reluctant to write a new book on Calcutta and thinks it’s a post-bhadralok city, and more...

Akash Banerjee, former anchor with Times Now & Headlines Today speaks to Abhinandan Sekhri about his book, Arnab Goswami as a boss, the perils of turning Maoist sympathiser while reporting from ground zero, the faulty TRP system that decides what news we watch and more...

Kishwar Desai speaks to Rajyasree Sen about the “big bad world of journalism”, her books, the rights of surrogates, her new book on a gangrape, whether being married to Meghnad Desai opened doors for her and more…

Shabana Azmi and Javed Akhtar speak to Madhu Trehan about the connection between nature and song, Midnight’s Children, item numbers, the Justice Verma Committee report, the Delhi gangrape, importance for women to change the “notion of power” and more…

Binayak & Ilina Sen speak to Madhu Trehan on being charged with sedition, working in Chhatisgarh, “convict warders”, exposing the truth about the Salwa Judum, the criminalisation of dissent by the govt, the future of adivasis, the futility of the Maoist armed struggle and more…

Comedy TV veteran, Jayant Kripalani speaks to Anuvab Pal about how comedy on television has changed over the years, the inadvertent humour of news TV, the putrid smell of Bigg Boss, his new book and Ganguly Genjiwala.