Talking to India’s most famous

An exciting new book, 'Peerless Minds', edited by Pritish Nandy and Tapan Chaki, features 30 long-form interviews with leading Indians from different walks of life.

Here comes a new book, 'Peerless Minds', that defies contemporary trends and features long-form interviews of 30 famous Indians and people of Indian origin.

Edited by journalists Pritish Nandy and Tapan Chaki, the book features interviews with names such as Nobel laureates Amartya Sen, the late VS Naipaul and Kailash Satyarthi as well as Ratan Tata, Lata Mangeshkar, Sachin Tendulkar, Amitabh Bachchan, Salman Rushdie and Zubin Mehta.

And then there are the unusual ones like stand-up comedian Hasan Minhaj, philanthropist Azim Premji, oncologist and Pulitzer-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee, Fields Medallist mathematician Manjul Bhargava, mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik, Pritzker Prize winning architect Balkrishna Doshi, banker economist Raghuram Rajan, lawyer Fali Nariman, poet Javed Akhtar, Google CEO Sunder Pichai, and flautist Hariprasad Chaurasia.

Also, there are interviews with musician AR Rahman, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, historian Irfan Habib, actor Soumitra Chatterjee, Michelin-starred chef Vikas Khanna, sculptor Anish Kapoor and Abel Prize-winner probabilist SR Srinivasa Varadhan.

A special collector’s edition of only 500 copies, breathtakingly designed, has been printed for private circulation. With portraits by Rohit Chawla and many historic pictures, the book, supported by a grant, is a visual delight.

The Harpers Collins edition for sale will be on the bookstands in March.