Hari Kunzru

The novel inhabits the forgotten world of early blues, while fakery and the fantastic, served in overlapping narratives, keeps a steady, modernist beat

The Jaipur litfest’s flowchart of cravenness and commerce

Many a writerly brow stood furrowed over the Jaipur litfest turning Rushdie-centric

The author on his new book, Gods Without Men

Kunzru combines the real with the virtual to spin a splendid cyberyarn

A long overdue dose of the magical-subcontinental by an 'Indian' writer

The world's latest literary sensation, Hari Kunzru, 32, on his book The Impressionist, and the record advance for it.

It wasn't just about standing up for freedom of expression in India: maybe I was doing something more humble and honest. I was trying to restore a sense of balance to my own personal practice of literary criticism.

The courts may have effectively circumscribed Sec 153A and 295A of the IPC by limiting the circumstances under which they may be invoked, yet as long as they exist in a form that allows for anyone to file a police complaint, their job is done.

As writers organise for the ban on The Satanic Verses to be lifted, the battle to undo the damage of the past quarter century has begun. It is time for India to wake up.

Our intention was not to offend anyone’s religious sensibilities, but to give a voice to a writer who had been silenced by a death threat... I believed (and continue to believe) that I was not breaking the law, and had no interest in causing gratuito

The author of Transmission talks about his latest and previous book and on the complexities of identity - on how he reacts to Indians trying to reclaim and appropriate him and on being regarded one of the 'Benetton writers' and a poster-child