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Mallika Srinivasan: India's tractor queen
Behind the success of many farmers across 75 countries as varied as the US, India and Yugoslavia is a woman from Chennai. Mallika...
Sarita Ravindranath
Mar 3, 20228 min read


I feel the safest as an actor on an Anjali Menon set: Parvathy
Late last year, actor Parvathy went where no young female actor is supposed to go - She expressed an opinion. At the IFFK, Parvathy made...
Sarita Ravindranath
Mar 3, 20226 min read


Kiran Nagarkar on Extras, sexual repression & humourless Indians
Author Kiran Nagarkar frequently tells me he's 900 years old. I don't bother to verify, but I'm glad that for a man who feels 900, he...
Sarita Ravindranath
Mar 2, 202211 min read


These walls can't stand forever: Ali Sethi
Ali Sethi, 25, is nursing a wound when I meet him at his hotel in Chennai. The Pakistani writer isn't sure how or when he hurt his toe....
Sarita Ravindranath
Feb 28, 202210 min read


Life ain’t like an Agatha Christie novel: Ian Rankin
For Ian Rankin, it was never enough to know who killed whom and why. Not even when he was 11. The best-selling crime fiction writer does...
Sarita Ravindranath
Feb 8, 20224 min read


Playback singing has begun to bore me: Sonu
He is often referred to as India's best playback singer. But Sonu Niigaam, 35, says his sole agenda in life is to die a happy man -- not...
Sarita Ravindranath
Feb 7, 20225 min read


Interview with Sudeep Chakravarti: 'Maoists have the power to implode India'
2009 interview with Sudeep Chakravarti, author of Red Sun
Sarita Ravindranath
Feb 7, 202214 min read


Airports, critics & a fish: Conversation with Alain de Botton
He has followed the blood-soaked journey of a tuna fish from the Indian Ocean in the Maldives to a dinner table in London for his book,...
Sarita Ravindranath
Dec 2, 20218 min read
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