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An interview with Indian author Arundhati Roy. She talks about her rich and sensuous novel, The God of Small Things, which is nominated for the Booker Prize. (Update: Roy won the 1997 Booker Prize for this novel).

Eleanor Wachtel interviews Indian novelist and social anthropologist Amitav Ghosh. Ghosh reads from The Shadow Lines and In an Antique Land.

From New Delhi, India - award-winning novelist Arundhati Roy. Twenty years after her Booker Prize-winning, debut novel, The God of Small Things, she's back with a new book - The Ministry of Utmost Happiness - which explores gender identity, nationalism, Kashmiri independence, and many forms of both violence and love.

This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with the winner of this year's Man Booker Prize, Kiran Desai, about her powerful and ambitious new novel, The Inheritance of Loss.

"Out of India": three writers - Amitav Ghosh, Bharati Mukherjee and K. Saccidānandan - reflect on the country of their childhood and its dynamic changes today. Eleanor Wachtel spoke with them, onstage, at this year's Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in Montreal.

Man Booker Prize winner Aravind Adiga sits down with Writers & Company host Eleanor Wachtel for an enlightening literary discussion. They explore his winning novel The White Tiger, a relentlessly bleak, though surprisingly comic, look at modern India.

Amit Chaudhuri is considered one of the best Indian writers working today. A true renaissance man, he's a poet, essayist and musician, as well as the author of exquisite fiction. As the late Hilary Mantel described him, Chaudhuri "has, like Proust, perfected the art of the moment." His latest book, Sojourn - set in Berlin - is an evocative meditation on place and memory. Amit Chaudhuri spoke to Eleanor Wachtel from his home in Kolkata, India.

This interview takes place at a dinner at a house which appear to be in Toronto. Many people are involved in the conversation and at times it can be difficult to make out as 2-3 different conversations are happening at once.

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Author and journalist Aatish Taseer talks to Eleanor onstage in Toronto about his Indian Pakistani heritage, the impact of modernity on India today, and his new book, The Twice-Born, which explores the city of Benares, the spiritual capital of Hinduism.

Indian filmmaker Mira Nair spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about her screen adaptation of Vikram Seth's bestselling novel, A Suitable Boy. The series was the closing night presentation at TIFF 2020.

In front of a live audience in Montréal, at the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival, Eleanor speaks with the festival's Grand Prix winner, Anita Desai, about her life and the award-winning books she's written over more than fifty years.

Anuradha Roy's elegant, provocative fiction looks at life in India from unusual angles. Eleanor spoke to Roy about her latest book, Sleeping on Jupiter, which won the DSC South Asia Prize for Fiction.

This week, from India and New York, Amitav Ghosh. His new novel, Sea of Poppies - shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize - goes to the heart of the British Empire, with a tale of intrigue and romance set on the eve of the Opium Wars. Sea of Poppies is published by Viking Canada.