Nayantara Sahgal

The decision to withdraw the invitation to Sahgal (91), who was earlier at the forefront of the "award wapsi" campaign, was taken after a political outfit threatened to disrupt the function, the organisers said on Sunday.

Veteran writers like Nayantara Sahgal, Kiran Nagarkar and Jeet Thayil have been overlooked by the jury while shortlisting for the JCB Prize for Literature.

Two short extracts, one from the celebrated author's novel, From Fear Set Free, and the other from a letter to her mother Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, then ambassador to the Soviet Union

Nayantara Sahgal, who just returned her Sahitya Akademi award in protest against what she calls “the unmaking of India” on why she feels so angry and despondent

There are absences that time does not fill. His is one of them.

Nehru laid the foundation for democracy, a self-reliant economy and secularism. Let his legacy not be squandered.

Because leftists have allegedly distorted how we interpret the past, it does not mean the PM should give encouragement to beliefs which are laughable.

Why harp on Varun's lineage when he has abandoned its ideals?

South Africa remembers the apartheid era in a way we can learn from. A country that forgets its past forgets the ideals it is founded on.

Nayantara Sahgal turned 13 in 1940

We will never progress if we allow the closed mind to take open charge

Writers must speak on the louring sameness born of extremism and market

We can't do without the unique angle of vision that geography lends to literature