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Author is an Indian novelist, poet and essayist, currently working as an associate professor at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Dear Hindus, Muslims and others, will you ever take your eyes off the magic mirrors?
Like Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, you all are prisoners of your own beautiful narratives, your perceptions of your perfection. This is harming you. And us. We need to look away.
How a bomb in Iran and bombast from Donald Trump are part of the Pulwama backdrop
The US ‘condemning’ Pulwama is not enough. Given a range of complex new threats, India needs to keep its eyes, and its options, open.
Dark Secret: Why Donald Trump digs coal
The 'cowboy of industrial capitalism', coal evokes a time when workers actually mattered. But for all of Trump's promises on bringing back those days, he has only helped finance capitalism get stronger.
Why literature festivals, as a writer, fill me with utmost dread
The writer as a public figure is now seen as a performer for the crowds.
This is how we're losing the joy of reading
Literature has never been only about getting to your destination.
Why we must read stories to our children
One of the worst crimes parents are capable of is depriving their little ones of their inherent sense of excitement at being alive.
What stops India from clinching medals at Olympics
Our authorities need to select sports and games in which money can go a long way.
From Nazi horrors to genetic mapping, Siddhartha Mukherjee tells a great story
In 'The Gene: An Intimate History', the Pulitzer-winning author traces the tale of the gene from an obscure abbey in Moravia in 1856 to the present times.
Are translations of religious texts demoting God?
If The Supreme is needed to be 'justified' in literature, it could also critique, deny and even replace Him.
