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Hosted by Times Of India · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 117 episodes
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A Times Special presentation in which Jaya Bhattacharji Rose speaks to personalities from the world of books and literature. We feature national and international authors, including Jnanpith and Padma awardees, Nobel laureates, Booker Prize winners, Pulitzer winners, diplomats, bestselling authors, debut writers, and legendary writers across genres and languages
Times Of India hosts TOI Bookmark, a arts show with 117 episodes published.
Sunil Amrith is the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History at Yale University with a secondary appointment as professor at the Yale School of the Environment. He serves as Director of the Macmillan Centre for Interna
Tayari Jones is an American author best known for An American Marriage , which won the Women’s Prize for fiction in 2019. The novel won multiple other awards and was on Barack Obama’s summer reading list. Jones, who is t
Muddasir Ramzan is an academic and writer from Kashmir. Ramzan, who holds a doctorate in English from Aligarh Muslim University, focuses his scholarly work on contemporary Muslim writing and 20th and 21st century literat
Tanul Thakur is an award-winning journalist and film critic. In 2015, he won the National Film Award for Best Film Critic, the youngest to receive the honour. Many media outlets have interviewed him on cinema, culture an
Karan Mahajan is an Indian-American novelist, essayist, and critic. His second novel, The Association of Small Bombs , was named one of the 10 best books of the year by the New York Times Book Review. It won the Muse Ind
Assa Doron is a professor of Anthropology and South Asia at Australian National University. He is the author and co-author of several books, including ‘Life on the Ganga’, ‘The Great Indian Phone Book’, and ‘Waste of a N
Douglas Stuart is a New York-based Scottish author whose work explores themes of class and sexuality. He rose to international acclaim with his debut, 'Shuggie Bain', which won the 2020 Booker Prize and swept the British
Babell is a translation-focused literary festival set to take place in the city or Porto, Italy from 24-29 June. It invites writers who work across languages and cultures, and their Italian translators; the festival prom
Mohammed Hanif graduated from the Pakistan Air Force Academy as a pilot officer, but left to pursue a career in journalism. His first novel, A Case of Exploding Mangoes, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlist
Lucy Steeds is an English author whose debut novel The Artist was a Sunday Times bestseller. It was long listed for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025, and won the Waterstones Debut Fiction Award and the Waterstones Book
Yang Shuangzi and translator Lin King discuss the craft and politics behind 'Taiwan Travelogue', newly awarded the 2026 International Booker Prize, and describe a book designed to feel like both romance and post-colonial
Kavery Nambisan is a surgeon and a novelist from Karnataka. She has won the Tata Excellence Award for her work in tea plantations in Tamil Nadu. She has written articles and essays on medical and literary issues. Her nov
Daniyal Mueenuddin is a Pakistani-American author whose stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta and the Best American Short Stories, 2008, selected by Salman Rushdie. His collection In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
Rabih Alameddine is the author of ‘An Unnecessary Woman’, ‘The Hakawati’ and ‘I, The Divine’, in addition to many others. Among his accolades are the 2022 Penn Faulkner Award for Fiction and the 2025 National Book Award
Anand Neelkantan is an Indian novelist, columnist, screenwriter and public speaker who is known for his reinterpretation of mythological narratives from alternative perspectives. Neelkantan is known for integrating histo
Robert MacFarlane is the bestselling author of a long list of titles, including include Underland, Landmarks, The Gifts of Reading, The Old Ways, The Wild Places, and Mountains of the Mind. His critically acclaimed works
Ravikant Kisana is an academic and the author of ‘Meet the Savarnas’. He also podcasts and performs live under the moniker Buffalo Intellectual.
Mirza Waheed is a novelist and essayist born and raised in Kashmir and living in London. His debut novel, ‘The Collaborator’, was a finalist for the Guardian First Book Award and the Shakti Bhatt Prize and was longlisted
Anne is a Norwegian urban developer, curator and cultural producer with an international profile in art in public space. With more than 20 years' experience across art, architecture and civic infrastructure, she speciali
Daniel Rensch is an international chess master, published author and chief chess officer at chess.com, the leading platform for playing and learning chess. In this conversation, he discusses his memoir, ‘Dark Squares’.
Robert Macfarlane
Professor at Cambridge · Cambridge University
1 appearance on this show
Nussaibah Younis
peace building practitioner and expert on contemporary Iraq
1 appearance on this show
David Szalay
Booker Prize Winner 2025
1 appearance on this show
Amitav Ghosh
The Great Derangement
1 appearance on this show
Tim Berners-Lee
Sir
1 appearance on this show
Tim Berners-Lee
Sir
1 appearance on this show
Deepa Anappara
author of "The Last of Earth"
1 appearance on this show
Alex Broom
University of Sydney
1 appearance on this show
Assa Doron
Australian National University
1 appearance on this show
Daniel Rensch
chess.com
1 appearance on this show
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