fiction
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This timely novel explores a dystopian Asian future, the result of interference with nature
Rajat Chaudhuri
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Emma in Delhi: Mahesh Rao’s new novel sets Jane Austen’s classic amongst the capital’s swish set
Mahesh Rao
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‘Ummath’: The injustices of the Sri Lankan civil war told unsparingly through three women’s stories
Sharmila Seyyid
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A taste of the delicious flavours that food adds to crime fiction from around the world
Carolina Miranda, The Conversation M Jean Anderson, The Conversation Barbara Pezzotti, The Conversation
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Why we should never give up our quest to find (or write) the Great Indian Novel
Jenny Bhatt
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‘English, August’ is getting a special 30-year edition. But does it still hold up in 2018?
Supriya Nair
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Manzoor Ahtesham’s Hindi novel on the alienated post-partition Muslim in India is playfully truthful
Manzoor Ahtesham
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Why we must read this historical Assamese novel about the travails of displacement and war
Nabina Das
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A Japanese novel about an unambitious store clerk who refuses to change is earning praise. Why?
Rashmi Patel
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A chronicle of mental illness or a new way of looking at life? This novel could be both
Urvashi Bahuguna
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‘Sitai and Surpanakai’: This story turns a female rivalry from the Ramayana on its head
Anita Sivakumaran
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In this novel, a teenager tells the story of Independence and Partition as she sees them
Veera Hiranandani
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Manu Bhattathiri’s fictional town of Karuthupuzha returns. It’s still Malgudi for the 21st Century
Suneetha Balakrishnan
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This Assamese novel about Bengali Muslim settlers uprooted from their homes resonates sharply today
Rudrani Sarma
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Trying To Grow
Scroll Staff
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Read these excerpts from Malayalam writer S Hareesh’s novel ‘Meesha’, which some people want banned
S Hareesh
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Margaret Atwood’s ‘Alias Grace’ shows us how society used to view female criminals
Catherine Cox, The Conversation Hilary Marland, The Conversation
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The age of autofiction is here: How do writers feel about writing novels from their own lives?
Shashank Bhargava
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Ramapada Chowdhury (1922-2018) was one of the few Bengali writers who preferred quality to quantity
Shamik Ghosh
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This book of gut-wrenching short stories is a testament to how military conflict has bled Kashmir
Akhil Katyal