In An Antique Land
Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out to find an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before […]
Month: April 2016
The Worst Journey in the World
The Worst Journey in the World recounts Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. Apsley Cherry-Garrard, the youngest member of Scott’s team and […]
Curious Companions
“The planning and preparation for the trip was intentionally minimal and I set off at the end of December with myriad emotions competing for supremacy. […]
Pervin Saket
Is there any reason why you needed to draw inspiration from the background mythological source for the book? I was moved and inspired by Urmila’s […]
Diya Sethi
What compelled you to write ‘The Addict’? Can you tell us a little bit about how the writing of the book unfolded? I was in a […]
Githa Hariharan
Where do you place Almost Home in your entire oeuvre of writing? In a way, it sums up all my earlier books, even though those […]
Nomad of the Spirit
Bruce Chatwin may have left his body before he turned forty-nine but in the years that he was with us, he lived a life that […]
Becoming a mountain
The physical process of writing has always fascinated Stephen Alter, particularly in books that he would describe as “travel memoirs,” which includes most of his […]
Techniques of Travel Writing
Travel writing is among the oldest forms of writing used to record: Information of various kinds collected by travelers Observations of social, cultural and political […]