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Blood on the Border

A new crop of writers are adapting the the tried-and-tested spy thriller to an Indian context, for an Indian readership, with a familiar villain

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20 Apr 2013 | BY Arindam Mukherjee
The Binge Writer

Madeline Miller can write for 14 hours a day and still maintains she does not deserve to be called a writer.

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7 Feb 2013 | BY Devika Bakshi
Finding Fact in Fiction

Real life intrudes on fiction all the time. Kalpish Ratna indulge in some literary detection as they search for clues to the true character of Arthur Conan Doyle in Sherlock Holmes’ life and movements

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25 Mar 2012 | BY Kalpish Ratna
Death of the Reader

Readers who ignore historical silences in fiction by authors like Zadie Smith and Khalid Hosseini are just buying into the  feel-good myth of  multiculturalism

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9 Oct 2011 | BY Tabish Khair
‘Writing has a Religious Character’

When immersed in writing, Aatish Taseer often feels he can live without friends, family or lovers

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9 Sep 2011 | BY Shaikh Ayaz
As the Name Suggests

Lost and Found by CP Surendran will lose the reader in its maze of characters and find him again.

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9 Dec 2010 | BY Akshay Sawai
The MBA Writer

Rejection slip after rejection slip almost led The Immortals of Meluha to an ignominious death before it rose to become an instant chartbuster.

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17 Sep 2010 | BY Amish Tripathi
How I wrote my 500 page novel set in ancient Greece without being there

The Emissary takes you to Ancient Greece at the time of Alexander the Great through the tale of a young renegade. How the idea took seed, though, is another story.

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12 Aug 2010 | BY Aniruddha Bahal
Tome Team

Diana Preston on writing Mughal thrillers with her husband, and the ethics of fictionalising history.

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1 Apr 2010 | BY Elizabeth Kuruvilla
The Write Stuff from IIT and IIM

There is a new crop of BEs and MBAs churning out fiction, and not just about life at the IITs and IIMs.

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10 Mar 2010 | BY Rahul Jayaram
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