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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 On How A Childhood Memory Of Fear Sparked A Novel

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, shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, and won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for best first novel. His second novel, Our Lady Of Alice Bhatti, was shortlisted for the 2012 Wellcome Prize. He writes regularly for the New York Times, BBC Urdu and BBC Punjabi and splits his time between Berlin and Karachi. Rebel English Academy is his latest novel.

31 min
Jun 2

Beyond the Plaque: Hidden Labour, Power, and Art in The Artist

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 of the Year Award. Steeds has synaesthesia which she leans on as inspiration when translating images into words. She is a graduate of both the Faber Academy and the London Library Emerging Writers Program and currently splits her time between London and Amsterdam. In this episode of TOI Bookmark, Steeds delves into the world of The Artist, which was published by Hachette India.

36 min
May 21

Booker-Winning Duo Yang Tsang-zu and Ling King Trace Taiwan’s Multilingual Past Through Fiction, Food, and Form

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 critique

19 min
May 19

How A Character, A Village, And History Sparked Kavery Nambisan’s ‘Rising Sons’

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 novels include ‘The Scent of Pepper’, ‘The Story That Must Not Be Told’ and ‘A Town Like Ours’. Her two non-fiction books are ‘A Luxury Called Health’ and ‘Cherry Red, Cherry Black’. Today she discusses her latest novel, ‘Rising Sons’.

30 min
May 12

Daniyal Mueenuddin Talks Ambition and Social Power in This is Where the Serpent Lives

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 was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. A graduate of Dartsmouth College and Yale Law School, Mueenuddin practiced law in New York for a number of years before moving to Oslo, where he currently lives. In this episode of TOI Bookmark, Mueenuddin delves into his latest work, This is Where The Serpent Lives, a novel published by Penguin India.

31 min
May 6

From 'Cha Cha Cha' to Novel: How An Image Became An Obsession For Rabih Alameddine

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 for Fiction. In this conversation, he discusses his latest book, ‘The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)’.

34 min
Apr 28

Rewriting Myth from the Margins: Anand Neelkantan on Becoming the Character

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 historical, mythological and contemporary thematic elements like artificial intelligence. He has authored 16 novels, including the Asura and Bahubali trilogies, two non fiction books, and written for 14 TV and web shows, as well as a few Hindi and Malayalam films. In this episode of TOI Bookmark, Neelkantan talks about his latest novel Mahishasura, published by Penguin India, and provides an insight into how he gets into the minds of his characters.

36 min
Apr 20

Robert Macfarlane on Rivers, Language, and the Living World

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 have been translated into more than 30 languages and widely adapted for film, music, theatre, radio and dance. In 2017, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the E.M. foster Prize for Literature. In 2023 in Toronto, he was the inaugural winner of the Western International Award for a body of work in the field of nonfiction. In this episode of TOI Bookmark, MacFarlane discusses his 2025 release Is a River Alive?

37 min

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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