HarperCollins India announces the release on Dec 5, 2024 of The Green Book, the final volume in my trilogy of drawing books-plus-diaries. My eternal thanks to Udayan Mitra of HarperCollins India and to Hemali Sodhi of A Suitable Agency. An excerpt: Many of the drawings and paintings in this book are the result of the… Read more »
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US Paperbacks Out on Jan 28, 2025
What If Trump Wins
The terrible prospect of a second Trump presidency raises in my mind several questions, and one of them concerns our survival as artists and writers. How will we respond? I have been thinking of my 2021 novel A Time Outside This Time that was written during the years of the Trump rule. It was… Read more »
UK Paperback out on March 6
Thank you to Picador for this fabulous cover for the paperback edition of My Beloved Life out on March 6, 2025.
Fall Dates
Please go here for the complete post on Substack but here are my Fall dates: Sept 13, 2024, Tivoli…………Talk titled “Reading and Writing in the Anthropocene,” A Public Space Weekend Retreat Sept 21,2024, Seattle………..In conversation with Alka Kurian about My Beloved Life, JLF Seattle Sept 29, 2024, Brooklyn……….Noon panel on “Writing Our Histories,”… Read more »
Lethal Heat
I have a piece in The Guardian on the election results asking if we can have democracy if temperatures continue to rise. The crucial point to be noted here is that the heat did not figure at all among the thundering sentiments delivered from the dais by the candidates. The prominent environmentalist Ashish Kothari told… Read more »
Without Death, There is No Art
In which I reveal all my secrets. How did I come to write My Beloved Life. For @Scroll. The last exchange I had with my father was on the morning of March 7 last year. That same morning, I had learned from a phone call that I had been awarded a fellowship at the… Read more »
Sinking Town
I am very lucky to have a piece of mine to be published by Granta today. It is a travel-report on my visit to Joshimath, a town in Uttarakhand. Read it here.
The Sense of an Ending
I have just made a SubStack post about my time at the Cullman Center coming to a close. I have included in the post, at the request of a website that promotes reading, a list of five books on fathers. And some writing advice. Please check it out and subscribe to my SubStack!
Becoming Indian
I was born and grew up in India, and I’m trying to remember when I became Indian. That is the opening line of my essay in the latest issue of Foreign Policy, a special issue devoted to India. Here is the rest of my essay.