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Salil Tripathi
Salil Tripathi is the author of Offence: The Hindu Case, The Colonel Who Would Not Repent, and Detours: Songs of the Open Road. His next book is about the Gujaratis. He chairs PEN International’s Writers in Prison Committee. Born in Bombay, he studied in the United States, and has been a correspondent in India and Singapore. He lives in New York and writes for Mint and Caravan.
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Writing from the Brink
Brian Keenan in conversation with Salil Tripathi
Brian Keenan became headline news when he was kidnapped by Shi’ite militiamen in 1985 and held hostage in Beirut for four and a half years. The intensity and horror of that traumatic encounter is recounted in An Evil Cradling. His next book, I’ll Tell Me Ma, is a memoir about growing up in Belfast. In conversation with writer, journalist and human rights activist Salil Tripathi, he speaks of the trauma of incarceration and the will to survive.