In Conversation with Salini Vineeth

Salini Vineeth is a fiction and freelance writer based in Bangalore. She worked for ten years as an engineer before turning to full-time writing in December 2018. Since then, she has […]
In Conversation with Jerry Pinto

Jerry Pinto is a Mumbai-based Indian-English poet, novelist, short story writer, translator, as well as journalist. Pinto’s works include Helen: The Life and Times of an H-Bomb (2006), which won the Best Book on Cinema Award at […]
In Conversation with Kanishka Gupta

Kanishka Gupta, founder of Writers Side, Asia’s largest literary agency based in India, and some of the authors he represents have been at the forefront of literary conversations in recent […]
In conversation with Anukrti Upadhyay

Anukrti Upadhyay writes fiction and poetry in both English and Hindi. Her Hindi works include a collection of short stories titled Japani Sarai (2019) and the novel Neena Aunty (2021). Among her English works are […]
In conversation with Arunava Sinha

Arunava Sinha translates classic, modern, and contemporary Bengali fiction and nonfiction into English. Seventy-one of his translations have been published so far. Twice the winner of the Crossword translation award, […]
How to win the JLF Perfect Pitch Contest: Subi Taba tells us

Subi Taba won the JLF Perfect Pitch Contest in 2023. Fortunately for us, Subi is an HWR alum, and a frequent participant in our First Draft Clubs (FDCs). We asked […]
In conversation with Rochelle Potkar (Fictionist, Poet, Translator and Screenplay Writer)

About Rochelle Potkar Rochelle Potkar is an alumna of Iowa’s International Writing Program (2015) and a Charles Wallace Writer’s fellow, at the University of Stirling (2017). She is the author […]
Kritika Pandey – This writer is an inspired activist.

Kritika Pandey’s story “The Great Indian Tea and Snakes” was the Overall winner of the Commonwealth prize 2020. One of the Judges called it a “gut-punch”. This interview helps us understand the writer better.