India – PEN Transmissions

November 30, 2021November 30, 2021

The Threat of the Mob: An Interview with Anuradha Roy

Anuradha Roy on artists facing threat, publishing in India, and literary dogs.

September 10, 2021October 6, 2021

He Can Hardly Even Be Approached: On Saadat Hasan Manto

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Vijay Seshadri on Saadat Hasan

September 10, 2019October 30, 2019

All These Write, Not I Alone: A Conversation with Vikram Kolmannskog

A year after the decriminalisation of gay sex in India, we speak to Norwegian-Indian writer Vikram Kolmannskog about writing self, place and queerness.

June 26, 2019July 31, 2019

Channeling the rage: an interview with Meena Kandasamy

‘I think that the creation of an equal, just society is impossible under capitalism, which is why we need to learn from the mistakes of the past and imagine other ways of living. I think understanding caste, class, race inequalities is fundamental to any understanding of women’s struggle.’

January 28, 2013

Jeet Thayil reports from the Jaipur Literature Festival

Fresh from winning the 2013 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, Jeet Thayil writes about his experience returning to the Jaipur Literature Festival following the dramatic events of last year