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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Ravikant Kisana is an academic and the author of ‘Meet the Savarnas’. He also podcasts and performs live under the moniker Buffalo Intellectual.
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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
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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
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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’.
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Nussaibah Younis is a peace building practitioner and a globally recognized expert on contemporary Iraq. Younis has advised the Iraqi government on proposed programs to de radicalize women affiliated with the ISIS. She w
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David Szalay is the author of ‘Spring’, ‘The Innocent’, and ‘London and the Southeast’, for which he was awarded the Betty Trask and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prizes. ‘All That Man Is’ got the Gordon Burn Prize and Plimpto
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Amitav Ghosh is the critically acclaimed author of a widerange of fiction as well as non-fiction titles – including Shadow Lines, The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide, The Great Derangement, Smoke and Ashes, and Wild Fictio
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989 at CERN in Switzerland. Since then, he has been a tireless advocate for shared standards, open web access, and the power of individuals on the web. He was named in
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Maha Khan Phillips, born in Karachi, Pakistan, is the authorof Beautiful From This Angle, The Mystery of the Aagnee Ruby and The Curse of Mohenjodaro. Phillips is a multiple award winning financial journalist and editor
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Pallavi Aiyar is a foreign correspondent, columnist and author. She has spent over two decades reporting from China, Belgium, Japan, Indonesia and Spain. She's the author of eight books, including ‘Smoke and Mirrors’, ‘P
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Deepa Anappara is the critically acclaimed author of Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line, a debut novel named one of the best of 2020 by the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, The Guardian and NPR. Anappara is the wi
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Anuradha Roy is the author of five novels. Her first, ‘An Atlas of Impossible Longing’, was translated into 16 languages. ‘Sleeping on Jupiter’, her third novel, won the DSC Prize for Fiction 2016 and was longlisted for
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