LINDSAY PEREIRA

'Goa Inquisition was most merciless and cruel'

'It was a machinery of death. A large number of Hindus were first converted and then persecuted from 1560 all the way to 1812!' says novelist Richard Zimler.

'Literary critics will never grow up'

'Luckily for me, these days, people seem to be more interested in talking about my work than about money,' says novelist Hari Kunzru.

Mapping a city through poetry

'I cannot think of being a writer in any other city in India!' says poet Sampurna Chattarji.

'Why does Indian journalism constrain itself?'

'It's interesting that given the greater freedom Indian journalism enjoys, it constrains itself.' In conversation with Mohsin Hamid, author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist.

'Perhaps Gandhi was an inevitability'

'The world should never underestimate the extraordinary brilliance and ingenuity of the Indian people nor their ability to adopt and adapt the best of the cultures it sustains,' says historian Andrew Ward.

'William Shakespeare is our heritage too'

'Science gives me hope'

Saif and Shakespeare do no wrong

Trying to make sense of Helen

My worst date!

Chetan Bhagat: I could be working in a call centre

Why award shows are a bit of a joke

What are all those copywriters doing?

Rage: When politics and fiction collide

Shaadi No 1: Full of laughs

Hotel Rwanda: The horror, the horror

When Seth left Aamir open-mouthed

The man who lived on a train

Weekend Watch: Motorcycle Diaries

Inquisition tale is a best-seller