fiction
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‘Sylvia’: This experimental debut uses prose and poetry to present an enigmatic relationship
Maithreyi Karnoor
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‘No Man’s Land’: Anuradha Sharma Pujaree’s short story riffs on a football match in Meghalaya
Anuradha Sharma Pujaree
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Mirza Ghalib on the trail of a murder gloriously powers this gripping work of historical fiction
Abdullah Khan
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Investigator turns down case and blank cheque. But it’s only the beginning in this crime novel
Bhaskar Chattopadhyay
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‘The Last Queen’: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s novel resurrects the history of Jindan Kaur of Punjab
Huzan Tata
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When fiction can show us the arc of the Indian politician’s progress in a way that facts cannot
Devesh Verma
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This novel self-reflexively explores how a Kashmiri Pandit crafts the narrative of his life and loss
Trisha Gupta
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In this detective novel, the investigator suspects herself of being the murderer
Kalpana Swaminathan
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Hercule Poirot, still the world’s most loved detective, turns 100
Christopher Pittard, The Conversation
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s new novel re-imagines Maharani Jind Kaur, scourge of the British
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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How an obscure 1909 novella predicted the use of a Zoom-like global machine for video communication
Dan Taylor, The Conversation
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‘Hamnet’: When Anne Hathaway and her husband, the future playwright of ‘Hamlet’, lose their son
Radhika Oberoi
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‘Murder at the Mushaira’: A poet is murdered, and the detective chasing the killer is Mirza Ghalib
Raza Mir
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‘Principles of Prediction': Anushka Jasraj's mesmerising debut collection revels in the unknowable
Harsimran Gill
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This novel from Manipur uses fiction as a vehicle for stories of injustice in the real world
Richard Kamei
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‘The Bar’: This story by Paul Zacharia is part of the ‘Out of Print’ anthology now out in print
Paul Zacharia
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A Bhojpuri classic of unrequited love between a tawaif and a poet comes to English language readers
Pandey Kapil
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What might it have meant to marry Jesus while trying to break free as a woman? Try this novel
Nair DA
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This novel about the myth of Ahalya turns the traditional seduction narrative on its head
Rituparna Roy
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Salma’s novel presents the lives of women in a Muslim village in Tamil Nadu dreaming of freedom
Salma