Namita Gokhale’s new novel locates the Covid-19 crisis within the Indian joint family

Namita Gokhale

· Sep 28, 2021 · 06:30 pm

Five of the best new crime novels to read this autumn (and one golden oldie)

Alec Charles, The Conversation

· Sep 22, 2021 · 05:30 pm

A new book of interlinked short stories charts the life of a Delhi family over thirty years

Sonal Kohli

· Sep 21, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Lahore’: This ambitious partition trilogy begins with negotiations and a love story

Manreet Sodhi Someshwar

· Sep 20, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Abul Bashar’s stories, now translated into English, offer an intricate, intimate view of lived Islam

Abul Bashar

· Sep 17, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘The Earthspinner’: Anuradha Roy’s new novel fluidly tells unconnected stories and overwhelms you

Gayathri Sankar

· Sep 12, 2021 · 08:30 am

Even if you know everything about Emperor Ashoka, there are very good reasons to read ‘Asoca’

Sahana Hegde

· Sep 11, 2021 · 12:30 pm

‘Alipura’: The definitive novel of Bundelkhand, funny and tender, can now be read in English

Gyan Chaturvedi

· Sep 10, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Earthspinner’: Anuradha Roy’s intricate new novel is centred on a potter and a horse he creates

Anuradha Roy

· Sep 09, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Crime and the single, independent woman: This novel asks uncomfortable questions

Madhumita Bhattacharyya

· Sep 07, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Darklands’: Arnav Das Sharma’s coming-of-age novel in an all-too-real Indian dystopia falters

Devarsi Ghosh

· Sep 05, 2021 · 08:30 am

The fiercely original ‘Detransition, Baby’ pushes back against heteronormative storytelling

Saurabh Sharma

· Sep 04, 2021 · 05:30 pm

In Anita Agnihotri’s ‘Mahanadi’, fiction is interrupted by facts to create a braided narrative

Isa Ayidh

· Sep 04, 2021 · 12:30 pm

‘Beyond the Stars’: Stories Qurratulain Hyder wrote in her teens

Qurratulain Hyder

· Sep 01, 2021 · 05:30 pm

A new collection presents the short fiction of Assamese writer Harekrishna Deka in all its urgency

Harekrishna Deka

· Aug 31, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘The Politician’: Finally, an English novel set in the heartland of Indian politics, Uttar Pradesh

Mohammad Asim Siddiqui

· Aug 29, 2021 · 06:09 pm

A novel that asks what a young woman’s life is like when there only men around her

Parinda Joshi

· Aug 27, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Radiant Fugitives’: This novel is told from the point of view of a child at the moment of his birth

Nawaaz Ahmed

· Aug 25, 2021 · 05:30 pm

How the decades-old Japanese honkaku murder mysteries are making a comeback in English translation

Arunima Mazumdar

· Aug 24, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Payal Dhar’s YA novel with a queer theme runs the risk of over-simplifying the complexities

Prerna Vij

· Aug 22, 2021 · 05:30 pm