Writing in the Present: Arundhati Roy In conversation with Nandini Nair

Nandini Nair, Associate Director of New India Foundation, has been an arts and culture journalist for nearly two decades. She spent a decade as the arts and literary editor of Open Magazine. Prior to that she worked with the magazine sections of The Hindu Business Line, The Indian Express and The Hindu. She writes on a variety of subjects from social trends to gender issues, but the bedrock of her work is books. She has interviewed leading national and international authors over her career, both for the media and literature festivals. She founded a monthly book event, Talking Books Pune, to foster serious conversations in an informal setting between authors and readers.

Over the last decade, to engage with the younger generation, and to use reading and writing as a means for critical thinking, she has taught a course Elements of Writing to postgraduate students in Delhi, Leh and Nigeria. 

She has a MA in Arts and Culture Journalism from Columbia University, New York.