This review essay of Jon Fosse’s new novel contains my thoughts on autofiction, the essay, and impersonality, and the way these are part of a counter-movement that’s also vulnerable to appropriation: https://t.co/85n7q7M8IO You have to register (for free) to read it.

Ranajit Das, Samik Bandopadhyay, Oindrilla Maity and I will be in conversation with Madeleine St John at Kolkata Centre for Creativity at 5 pm tomorrow, 24th October. Here’s Das’s funny, excoriating essay from the On Failing symposium: https://t.co/hJQBpBUWVc

Tiffany Atkinson’s terrific essay (weaving together IVF and Brexit) from the On Failing collection, now up on the Literary Activism website: https://t.co/oBSAOt8ZW1

This discussion will take place on October 24th at the Kolkata Centre for Creativity. Do consider coming if you’re interested. It’s open to all.

#Kolkata join us for an evening of conversations to celebrate 10 years of Literary Activism on 24 October 2025.

Here’s the lyric video for my daughter Aruna’s new song, Call it Tragic:

Here’s my daughter Aruna’s new single, Call it Tragic, out today (words and music by Aruna and Mya). As it happens, it was previewed last night on BBC Introducing, her second appearance on this programme. https://t.co/NrNpxzwaKi https://t.co/pUGUB8NKlf https://t.co/XpzkzGdfA4

Tomorrow afternoon, 18th September, at Ashoka University.

‘The Emergence of the Impersonal’ - a talk I’m giving at Ashoka University tomorrow, 17th September, at 1:30 PM in AC04-302.

Clancy Martin’s tragicomic Suicide as a Sort of Failure, from the On Failing essays and talks:

Four pieces from the On Failing symposium have been uploaded to the Literary Activism website: three essays and the mission statement to which speakers responded: https://t.co/UiEEvypMzr These and other pieces are available in the book, On Failing.

This Thursday, at Ashoka University. It’s open to all.

I picked up Adil Jussawalla’s anthology, New Writing in India, when I was around 16. I’m delighted it’s been reissued after 51 years, and honoured to have had the opportunity to write a new introduction for it:

This interview is part of the ongoing campaign to have conservation areas or heritage zones in Calcutta: https://t.co/Yu6Ae2lqZ8 To pledge support, please sign here:

The Guardian asked me to write about Arundhati Roy’s new book. https://t.co/IXR60NnhFq

A talk I had with Sanaya Narula at St Peter’s, Oxford, for the Oxford Media Society: https://t.co/Bt9LNG0rby I enjoyed the chat, in which we covered a lot, and, following a last-minute glitch with recording equipment, was also happy to be in a kind of Beckettian frame.

🌿 Shonibar’er Adda @ Calcutta Bungalow Do we want our heritage and successful paarhas to survive, or be slowly lost to so-called development? 🗓 Date: Sat 23 Aug 🕰 Time: 6PM onwards 📍 Venue: Calcutta Bungalow, Fariapukur, Shyambaza

Two new translations, prompted by the fact of Independence Day, of poems by Shamsher Bahadur Singh and Tagore on the Literary Activism site, written in 1947 and 1941 respectively: https://t.co/3eqX4esAsr

We had a wonderful time listening to the panel talk about reading and writing against the grain on a beautiful Monday evening. The Literary Activism series is available at all major bookstores and online.

This evening in Delhi - 11th August, 6 pm onwards.