May fiction: Six new novels and short story collections to cool down with in summer

Scroll Staff

· 8 hours ago

‘Hot Water’: Bhavika Govil’s debut novel movingly constructs a child’s fragile yet resilient world

Sayari Debnath

· Yesterday · 08:30 am

Thriller: Every student in an elite Noida school is a suspect when a schoolmate is killed

Novoneel Chakraborty

· May 02, 2025 · 05:30 pm

Fiction: A seemingly ideal couple goes on a final date on the day of their divorce

Pinaki Gangopadhyay

· May 01, 2025 · 06:30 pm

‘They’re going to close our river’: Manto’s 1950s story about the India-Pakistan water dispute

Saadat Hasan Manto Rakhshanda Jalil

· Apr 29, 2025 · 01:30 pm

Fiction: Rabiya’s dream of becoming a teacher is shattered when she’s married off to an older man

Tahira Naqvi

· Apr 28, 2025 · 06:30 pm

‘Teru’: Sahitya Akademi-winning Kannada novel questions uncritical acceptance of religious ritualism

Nikhil Sanjay-Rekha Adsule

· Apr 27, 2025 · 03:30 pm

Sunday book pick: Mario Vargas Llosa’s novel ‘Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter’ is a total romp

Sayari Debnath

· Apr 27, 2025 · 01:30 pm

‘Unmoored’: Translated Tamil novella about migration takes the reader on a journey of their own

Nandan S Kaushik

· Apr 26, 2025 · 06:30 pm

In this old novel by KA Abbas, the hero grapples with colonial rule and the need for a revolution

Khwaja Ahmad Abbas

· Apr 25, 2025 · 05:30 pm

Fiction: Waleed trades a life of petty crime for something bigger by joining Karachi’s ruling party

Hamza Jalil Albasit

· Apr 24, 2025 · 05:30 pm

Fiction by Upamanyu Chatterjee: A hungry man, deranged by the smell of meat, kills a family of six

Upamanyu Chatterjee

· Apr 23, 2025 · 05:30 pm

Fiction: A social media influencer ends up on a dangerous path but finds an unlikely saviour

Divyansh Mundra

· Apr 22, 2025 · 05:30 pm

Fiction: A retired man is forced to return to work after builders foil his attempts to buy a house

MR Dattathri

· Apr 21, 2025 · 05:30 pm

‘The Book of Disappearance’: The dangerous ease with which colonial dispossession can become routine

Neeraja Srinivasan

· Apr 19, 2025 · 04:00 pm

‘True Story of a Writer, A Philosopher and a Shape-shifter’: Truth is contentious in a ‘true story’

Arifa Banu

· Apr 19, 2025 · 08:30 am

Fiction excerpt: From the 2025 edition of Sunetra Gupta’s 1992 classic ‘Memories of Rain’

Sunetra Gupta

· Apr 18, 2025 · 05:30 pm

Fiction: Draupadi witnesses a grotesque act. Should she inform the police or protect her peace?

Gourahari Das Manoranjan Mishra

· Apr 16, 2025 · 05:30 pm

‘The Last Knot’: An inventive novel that transports us to Kashmir’s era of tyranny under Dogra rule

Attaul Munim Zahid

· Apr 12, 2025 · 07:30 am

Fiction: An incident at the swimming pool leaves young Mira and Ashu shaken, and their mother angry

Bhavika Govil

· Apr 11, 2025 · 05:30 pm