Author Timeri Murari doesn't like Salman Rushdie's writing. The man who has created many bestsellers and an acclaimed film describes all those who read awarded authors as "literary masochists". "I've ...

A year before Stephen King’s The Stand, a novel that imagines humanity decimated by a superflu called Captain Trips, hit the stands, Chennai-based author Timeri N Murari wrote The Oblivion Tapes. The ...

CHENNAI: Have you ever thought what it would be like to have Chanakya, the renowned strategist of fourth century, reincarnate? The author of Arthashastra who helped Chandragupta Maurya rise up as the ...

Timeri N. Murari was for many years a journalist writing for The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and Observer in London before he moved to New York, where he made documentary films for British television.

In this week’s picks, new novels from Craig Johnson, China Mieville, Timeri Murari, Peter Carey, and Garth Nix, plus stories of Southern India from Tania James; the first collection of Batman’s “New ...

Murari's newest (after Taj) is set in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2000, and tells the harrowing tale of an educated young newspaperwoman during the Taliban's rule, when "Women must be seen only in the home ...

Kim comes out in a new shade. Perhaps that would be the closest you can get to describing what Timeri Murari picked up from what Rudyard Kipling had left behind. "Rudyard Kipling will be spinning in ...

Old-timers remember Chennai as Madras, a city of horse-drawn carriages, lonely streets and men in suits. A TOI series brings recollections from a mix of neighbourhoods When he was eight, Timeri Murari ...