fiction
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A civil servant struggles to reconcile tribal rights with her duty to the state in this novel
Anita Agnihotri
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The demonetisation novel: A finance expert in New York gets an urgent call from India
Ravi Subramanian
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‘The crux of my novel is one woman’s loneliness’: How a writer recreated the story of the poet Andal
Urvashi Bahuguna
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From Korea, a fairy tale for adults that makes readers happy with its violence and nightmares
Suhasini Patni
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Man Booker Prize 2018: Anna Burns wins for ‘Milkman’, but big publishers are the real victors
Leigh Wilson, The Conversation
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A novel about one woman’s life becomes a neat history of middle-class anxiety in India
Niyati Bhat
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A ‘rakshashi’ is released, triggering a crisis in this new fantasy novel from India
Achala Upendran
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Three contrasting lives intersect in Fatima Bhutto’s new novel about identity and violence
Fatima Bhutto
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This coming-of-age novel about friendship is set against the 1987 Khasi-Bengali clashes in Shillong
Nilanjan P Choudhury
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This debut collection of interconnected short stories is a web of responses to everyday violence
Akil Kumarasamy
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Anuradha Roy and Jairam Ramesh among shortlisted authors for The Hindu Literary Prize
Scroll Staff
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‘In Arab countries, you will remain a foreigner, but they want you as a paid slave’: Benyamin
Urvashi Bahuguna
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In a landscape of new literary awards, what can readers take away from the DSC Prize longlist?
Sana Goyal
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Anita Nair’s ‘Eating Wasps’ is a strangely calming reminder of the complex lives of women
Suhasini Patni
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The 1971 Dhaka University massacre forms the backdrop for this novel about life in violent times
Nadeem Zaman
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Arundhati Roy and Jeet Thayil on the longlist of the 2018 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
Scroll Staff
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‘The Salt Doll’: A new edition of a 1978 work brings us a novel that should not have been forgotten
Molly Daniels Ramanujan
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Kirsty Gunn’s new novel is a clever tale of unrequited love in these diminished times
Ipsita Chakravarty
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‘Red Birds’: Mohammed Hanif’s most sorrowful novel is swallowed up by its grief
Supriya Nair
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What was it like to be Andal? This novel imagines the life of the ninth century devotional poet
Sharanya Manivannan