Articles by Arunima Mazumdar
Interview: Durreen Shahnaz – ‘Doing good through finance is not easy’
The first Bangladeshi woman to work on Wall Street, the author of The Defiant Optimist talks about the role of finance in development and women’s empowerment
Published on Sep 20, 2023 04:57 PM IST
Arunima Mazumdar
Cheryl Strayed – “Art in all its forms reminds us that we are not alone”
On seeing her writing being adapted for the screen, and on drawing from her experiences to give advice to readers on love, family, and career
Updated on Aug 18, 2023 08:22 PM IST
Arunima Mazumdar
Review: Wasteland by Oliver Franklin-Wallis
A deep study of planet Earth’s waste crisis, Wasteland looks at the enduring impact of the things we throw away
Updated on Aug 12, 2023 10:16 AM IST
Arunima Mazumdar
Bonnie Garmus - “As humans, we all want to live a life that matters”
On her debut novel about a female scientist in 1960s USA that’s set to become a web series starring Academy Award winner Brie Larson
Updated on Jun 30, 2023 07:48 PM IST
Arunima Mazumdar
Review: Manjhi’s Mayhem byTanuj Solanki
Goons fly out of glass windows, paunchy bankers are slapped around and mafiosi crumble to the floor in Tanuj Solanki’s fast-paced new novel
Updated on Jun 09, 2023 07:04 PM IST
Arunima Mazumdar
“The number of women in decision making roles needs a boost” - KK Shailaja
Kerala’s former health minister, KK Shailaja, talks about her communist upbringing in post-independence India, her days as a school teacher, her work during two deadly virus outbreaks, and how science shapes her thinking
Updated on May 05, 2023 04:07 PM IST
Arunima Mazumdar
Interview: Juan Gomez-Jurado, author, Red Queen
On his detective thriller that has sold over 2 million copies in his native Spain and is now being adapted into a web series
Updated on Apr 21, 2023 05:40 PM IST
Arunima Mazumdar
Zeina Abirached, graphic novelist - “Humour saved us during terrible times”
The French-Lebanese artist, who is the author of Le Piano Oriental, attempts to tell stories about war-torn Beirut’s fading history
Updated on Apr 14, 2023 09:47 PM IST
Arunima Mazumdar
Kavita Gupta Sabharwal: ‘Children need to see affirming images of themselves’
The co-founder of the Neev Literature Festival talks about instituting a fellowship for creators of children’s books
Updated on Apr 10, 2023 02:32 PM IST
Arunima Mazumdar
Kiran Manral, Author: ‘I have become increasingly self-critical over the years’
The best selling author and columnist, whose latest book is All Those Who Wander, talks about writing in multiple genres
Updated on Apr 03, 2023 07:09 PM IST
Arunima Mazumdar
Review: The Blue Women by Anukrti Upadhyay
Short stories about real women and their complicated relationships with the world and with themselves
Published on Mar 24, 2023 04:02 PM IST
Arunima Mazumdar
Miranda Seymour: ‘Jean Rhys was far ahead of her time’
In an email interaction, biographer Miranda Seymour talked about visiting Roseau, the birthplace of the Dominican-British writer, to chronicle her adventurous life influenced by the island’s wild colours, smells, and conflicted history
Updated on Feb 25, 2023 05:14 PM IST
Arunima Mazumdar
Buku Sarkar, author, Not Quite A Disaster After All - “I like being cranky and bitchy at times”
The photographer’s debut novel is a story of life’s many shifts told from the perspective of two strong women
Updated on Feb 18, 2023 11:16 AM IST
Arunima Mazumdar
Interview: Tiffany Tsao - “Indonesian literature is less well known”
The author of The Majesties talks about the Chinese community in Indonesia, and about translating Indonesian authors like Budi Darma and Norman Erikson Pasaribu
Published on Feb 10, 2023 04:10 PM IST
Arunima Mazumdar
Shobhaa De – “I frequently falter”
On her new memoir, Insatiable; My Hunger for Life, confronting uncomfortable truths, her equation with her family, reality TV, and the pervasiveness of politics
Published on Feb 03, 2023 09:21 PM IST
Arunima Mazumdar
HT reviewer Arunima Mazumdar picks her favourite read of 2022
A dark satire about a fictional war photographer who wakes up dead during the Sri Lankan civil war in the 1980s
Published on Dec 23, 2022 04:33 PM IST
Arunima Mazumdar
Interview: An Yu, Author, Ghost Music - “I am drawn to the secrecy of mushrooms”
Chinese author An Yu’s latest novel, Ghost Music, uses the metaphor of mushrooms to reveal buried family secrets
Published on Dec 07, 2022 03:52 PM IST
Arunima Mazumdar
Review: The Truth Pill; The Myth of Drugs Regulation in India byDinesh S Thakur and Prashant Reddy T
For most of us, a doctor’s orders are sacrosanct; stick to the prescription, don’t miss a dose, and complete that course of antibiotics
Updated on Nov 12, 2022 10:53 AM IST
Arunima Mazumdar
Interview: Shaili Chopra, author, Sisterhood Economy: Of, By, For Wo(Men) - “Caste and gender inequality go hand in hand”
The author’s new book attempts to understand, through data and statistics, how women can contribute more to the economy
Published on Sep 30, 2022 08:53 PM IST
Arunima Mazumdar
Review: All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami
The Japanese novelist’s latest book is an introspective tale about a lonely young freelance proofreader
Updated on Sep 21, 2022 03:10 PM IST
Arunima Mazumdar
Interview: Karen M McManus, Author, Nothing More to Tell - “I write with my teen readers in mind”
What inspired you to write for young adults? I loved creative writing as a child and teenager but never thought that I could pursue it as a career
Updated on Sep 19, 2022 03:00 PM IST
Arunima Mazumdar
Patricia L, author: ‘I never considered myself Indian; I was always a Frenchy’
The French journalist and TV presenter, who was abandoned by her birth mother and adopted by a Franco-Belgian couple from the Mother Teresa Foundation in New Delhi, speaks about growing up in France, and raising daughters who understand the burden of being born from an abandoned child
Updated on Aug 30, 2022 07:04 PM IST
Arunima Mazumdar
Interview: Sudha G Tilak, translator, Hungry Humans by Karichan Kunju - “I think in English, feel in Tamil and flirt in Bengali”
The author and journalist’s translation of Karichan Kunju’s Tamil classic Pasitha Manidam immerses the reader in the milieu of a temple town
Published on Jul 01, 2022 11:24 PM IST
Arunima Mazumdar
‘I was reborn as a writer’ - Marie Darrieussecq, author, Pig Tales
French writer Marie Darrieussecq’s first novel, Pig Tales is a radical novella about a woman working at a massage parlour who, as a result of the constant male gaze, slowly begins to transform into a pig
Published on Jun 24, 2022 10:56 PM IST
Arunima Mazumdar
Interview: Nina de Gramont, author, The Christie Affair - ‘I wanted my novel to be purely speculative’
In the winter of 1926, famous English crime novelist Agatha Christie, left her home in Berkshire and mysteriously disappeared for 11 whole days. Christie, who had recently discovered her husband’s infidelity, was eventually found in a hotel in the spa-town of Harrogate. Interestingly, she had checked into the hotel using the name of her husband’s mistress. American author Nina de Gramont was drawn to imagining a fictitious scenario based on historical facts where Agatha, her husband and his mistress come together to weave a fascinating story
Published on Apr 22, 2022 07:25 PM IST
Arunima Mazumdar
Interview: Agnès Martin-Lugand, author, Happy People Read and Drink Coffee - ‘I never deliver a preachy message to my readers’
The clinical psychologist and best-selling author talks about the origin of her ideas and about self publishing her first novel on Kindle in 2012. The book as now been translated into 34 languages including English, Portuguese, Lithuanian, Turkish and Chinese
Updated on Apr 12, 2022 01:39 PM IST
Arunima Mazumdar
Interview: Michel Bussi, author, The Other Mother - ‘My desire is to sublimate the real’
Michel Bussi, who has won more than 15 literary awards and sold over 10 million copies, has published his seventh novel — The Other Mother, a thriller about a four-year-old child who’s convinced that his mother is not his real mother — in English
Updated on Mar 05, 2022 11:22 AM IST
Arunima Mazumdar
Interview: Leila Slimani, author, The Country of Others - ‘Identity depends very much on how people look at you’
The French-Moroccan writer’s historical novel, the first in a trilogy, was inspired by her own grandmother’s life in post-WWII Morocco as a Frenchwoman married to a Muslim-Moroccan soldier
Published on Jan 28, 2022 03:39 PM IST
Arunima Mazumdar
Interview: Dorthe Nors, Author, Wild Swims
The Danish author talks about living along the North Sea shoreline, the idea of hygge, how the pandemic closed off the world for her, and about her anthology of 14 short stories that offer crisp everyday glimpses of the Nordic life
Updated on Sep 17, 2021 04:46 PM IST
Arunima Mazumdar
Review: Heaven by Mieko Kawakami
The Japanese novelist’s latest book is a heartbreaking tale of two teenagers finding refuge in friendship to escape the torture of classroom bullying
Updated on Jul 29, 2021 05:50 PM IST
Arunima Mazumdar