In the Mumbai of ‘Rohzin’, the real collides with the imagined and history joins hands with folklore

‘Rohzin’ was originally published in Urdu in 2016 and won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2018. It has been translated into English by Sabika Abbas Naqvi.

Saloni Sharma

· Jun 18, 2022 · 05:30 pm

‘The Paradise of Food’: Horror lurks in kitchen corners in Khalid Jawed’s fiction of hostility

Despite its eschewal of realism, this novel is a text cognisant of the political climate it has been written in.

Saloni Sharma

· Jun 04, 2022 · 05:30 pm

‘Kaikeyi’ tells the story of one of the women the Ramayana forgot to give a voice to

Vaishnavi Patel’s debut novel, in a defiant act of reclamation, rescues the eponymous queen from eternal erasure and allows her to tell her own story.

Saloni Sharma

· May 08, 2022 · 08:30 am

‘Homeward’: This anthology of polyphonous pieces talks about what home means in North-East India

In this new poetics of space, home is no longer a fixed location.

Saloni Sharma

· May 01, 2022 · 08:30 am

This Malayalam novel is part-speculative fiction, part-cautionary tale, part-dystopic narrative

TD Ramakrishnan’s debut novel, ‘Alpha’, presents an experiment with human nature gone terribly wrong.

Saloni Sharma

· Apr 09, 2022 · 12:30 pm

‘Run and Hide’: Pankaj Mishra’s novel takes a hard look at the politics of optics in modern India

The tension between liberal democracy and populism that defines much of our current political climate is brought to life in Mishra’s characters.

Saloni Sharma

· Mar 27, 2022 · 12:30 pm

Upamanyu Chatterjee asks in his new novel what villainy is, and offers uncomfortable answers

The storyline of the novel is all too familiar to anyone who has followed the lives of the rich and the famous in post-liberalisation urban India.

Saloni Sharma

· Mar 12, 2022 · 12:30 pm

‘The Middle Finger’: Saikat Majumdar’s new novel interrogates privilege in the world of teachers

Majumdar delves into the world of academia and the spaces that literature inhabits inside and outside the classroom.

Saloni Sharma

· Feb 19, 2022 · 12:30 pm

‘Adam’: S Hareesh’s collection of short stories is a disturbingly real study of dark human behaviour

We are like his characters, even when separated by boundaries of language or geography or species.

Saloni Sharma

· Feb 05, 2022 · 08:30 am

‘Qabar’: KR Meera’s novel deftly explores religious polarisation with a feminist sensibility

The novel nudges the reader towards empathy and acceptance.

Saloni Sharma

· Jan 22, 2022 · 05:30 pm

‘Smashing the Patriarchy’ argues for a new kind of feminism in India, away from older models

Sindhu Rajasekaran locates contemporary women’s struggles as decidedly more individual and centred in the still-controversial idea of postfeminism.

Saloni Sharma

· Dec 04, 2021 · 08:30 am

‘A Time Outside This Time’ asks uncomfortable questions of responsibility and complicity

Amitava Kumar’s new novel asks what is the role of fiction is in a world where truth itself has become casualty.

Saloni Sharma

· Nov 21, 2021 · 08:30 am