Interview

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• 2025
• Debut Authors
• Interview

“Straying has multiple layers of meaning in the novel.”- Anisha Lalvani (Author, Girls Who Stray)

1 year ago Editor_Kitaab

Team Kitaab is in conversation with Anisha Lalvani, author of Girls Who Stray (Bloomsbury, 2024). Anisha Lalvani has lived in...

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• 2025
• Interview

“Stories convey collective memories from a time that may otherwise be lost forever.” – Dr. Kanika Gupta (Author, Art Historian, Trained Dancer, and Filmmaker)

1 year ago Editor_Kitaab

Team Kitaab is in conversation with author and art historian Dr. Kanika Gupta where we talk about her work, the...

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• 2025
• Interview

“It is only as The New New Delhi Book Club was published that I saw that there was a distinct thread linking all my apparently disparate works. ” Radhika Swarup (Author- The New New Delhi Book Club)

1 year ago Editor_Kitaab

Team Kitaab is in conversation with Radhika Swarup, author of The New New Delhi Book Club (Tranquebar, 2024) where we...

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• 2024
• Interview

“Children, by default, are open and accepting, and I wanted the book to nurture this openness—both toward others and within themselves.”- Mamta Nainy (Author, This is How I See it)

1 year ago Editor_Kitaab

Team Kitaab is in a conversation with author Mamta Nainy where we spoke to her about her latest book ,...

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• 2024
• Interview

“Irawati has a lot to teach us.” – Urmilla Deshpande & Thiago Pinto Barbosa (Authors, Iru : The Remarkable Life of Irawati Karve)

1 year ago Editor_Kitaab

Team Kitaab is in conversation with authors Urmilla Deshpande and Thiago Pinto Barbosa, on their latest work Iru : The...

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• 2024
• Interview

“Faith is deeply personal to people. In our country, it is also deeply embedded in everyday life. “- Siddharth Kapila (Author- Tripping Down the Ganga: A Son’s Exploration of Faith)

2 years ago Editor_Kitaab

Team Kitaab is in conversation with Siddharth Kapila on his first book, Tripping Down the Gange: A Son's Exploration of...

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• 2024
• Interview

“The idea that WSCs does research on women and women’s issues marginalises the discipline and does not take into consideration that gender and women are not synonymous.”- Dr. Panchali Ray

2 years ago Editor_Kitaab

Team Kitaab is in conversation with Dr. Panchali Ray, co-author of Teaching/Writing Resistance: Women's Studies in Contemporary Times (Orient Blackswan,...

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• 2024
• Interview

“I do my best to stay true to my voice, writing freely and innocently, but it’s not always easy.”- Tagore Almeida (Writer & Filmmaker)

2 years ago Editor_Kitaab

Team Kitaab in conversation with writer and filmmaker Tagore Almeida where we spoke about his latest book The Goan Who...

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• 2024
• Interview

“The modern audiences are increasingly inclined on living by intent rather than being driven by circumstance.”- Barnali Ray Shukla (Writer, Film-maker & Poet)

2 years ago Editor_Kitaab

Team Kitaab is in conversation with Writer, Filmmaker, and Poet Barnali Ray Shukla about her latest movie Joon. Barnali Ray...

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• 2024
• Interview

“The sense that our lives are constantly visible to the world, as other people’s lives are visible to us, makes us want to curate our existence.”- A.M. Gautam (Author- Indian Millennials: Who are They, Really?)

2 years ago Editor_Kitaab

Team Kitaab is in conversation with author A.M. Gautam where we discussed his latest work Indian Millennials: Who are they,...