Watch: Andaleeb Wajid, Keshava Guha on writing fiction in the times of AI

2026-01-29 - 10:00

Where is fiction’s place in today’s world? What role does it play at a time when Artificial Intelligence is being used to write wedding speeches and obituaries? Does fiction make us empathetic, and what, then, is the writer’s ultimate motivation to create? At The Hindu Pavilion stage, fiction writers Andaleeb Wajid and Keshava Guha sought to answer these questions during a session titled ‘The Place of Fiction’, moderated by Radhika Santhanam