Poet, translator, art curator and critic Ranjit Hoskote sat down with Sumeet Keswani for a chat—about everything from Hoskote’s various practices informing each other, to the place of poetry in the current public discourse, and the newer platforms poets must embrace.
Kunzum speaks with Meena Kandasamy about her latest book—a feminist translation of a Tamil classic—her tools of activism, artificial intelligence, her next poetry collection, and the writers and books that have shaped her craft.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is back, with a novel about three sisters caught up in the aftermath of India’s Independence and Partition. We sat down with her at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2023 to talk books, strong female characters, inspirational women writers, and more.
From Chinese fortune cookies to scissors, unusual objects possess a voice in Ruth Ozeki’s latest novel, The Book of Form and Emptiness. Curious, we approached Ozeki to understand her writing process, relationship with objects, obsession with libraries and bookstores, and Buddhist approach to life.
Winner of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature in 2019, Half the Night is Gone is Amitabha Bagchi’s third and arguably most popular novel. The author speaks with Kunzum about the book and its new Hindi translation, his literary influences and recommended reads.
Make 2023 the year when you gift books to every person in your life! Here’s a handy guide to give you some ideas for the people in your life.
Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar winner Tanuj Solanki answers all our questions about his latest novel, Manjhi’s Mayhem: from his genre shift to doing justice to a Dalit POV and his crime-writing inspirations.
Many of our patrons enjoy stumbling across poetry on Instagram but don’t know where to start when it comes to picking up books. So, we reached out to multiple-award-winning poet Arundhathi Subramaniam to ask her which books she recommends.
Rochelle Potkar is an award-winning poet, fictionist, screenwriter, critic, editor, and translator. We sat down with her to understand how these different artistic pursuits come together in her life.
