In any industry and any market, the big players tend to be the companies that were there in the early days and made the right decisions along the way. Latecomers are rarely market leaders, but they ...

Hold on, I’d better take this.” Anthony, Lord Bamford, the billionaire chairman of JCB, holds up a hand and breaks off the interview to take a call. A crisis at its vast Indian operations? A ...

The 2020 longlist for India’s richest literary prize, the JCB Prize for Literature, was announced on September 1. This year’s jury – chaired by Tejaswini Niranjana, and joined by Aruni Kashyap, Ramu ...

I would say that a literary prize is more about quality of writing than about how well known an author is or how many books they have written, unless it is an award directly related to long standing ...

A seemingly non-linear narrative set across several timelines, I Named My Sister Silence is more than a bildungsroman. It follows an Adivasi boy, an unnamed narrator, as he grows up and leaves his ...

S Hareesh talks about the role of the translator, the increasing influence of the Sangh Parivar in his native Kerala, and the opposition to his novel in the state Congratulations for the JCB Prize but ...