Tara was Vali’s wife, Sugriv’s queen, the woman who cursed Ram. This novel tells her story

Kavita Kané

· Dec 22, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Fiction: Ayingbi Mayengbam is a volunteer for a suicide hotline. But she can’t save everyone

Arsh Verma

· Dec 21, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Fiction: Encouraged by friends, woman goes to Italy to reconnect with an old lover after many years

Amanda Burns

· Dec 20, 2023 · 05:30 pm

‘Gaza throbbed with sadness’: Writer Sally Rooney reads Palestinian author Ghassan Kanafani’s story

Scroll Staff

· Dec 19, 2023 · 02:25 pm

Fiction: Two brothers rob Indian banks of US $ 700 million, setting off a dangerous chain of events

Ajit Menon Anil Verma

· Dec 18, 2023 · 05:30 pm

‘The Dream Builders’: How modern cities kill the dreams they promise their less-fortunate residents

Saloni Sharma

· Dec 17, 2023 · 08:30 am

Aakar Patel’s ‘After Messiah’ underlines what power can make you do irrespective of idealism

Saurabh Sharma

· Dec 17, 2023 · 07:30 am

Ajanta Deo’s Hindi novel ‘Kharij Log’ is an urgent quest to unravel what it means to belong

Arundhati Ghosh

· Dec 16, 2023 · 01:30 pm

A new novel imagines artist-poet Edward Lear’s little-known Indian sojourns

Anindyo Roy

· Dec 15, 2023 · 06:30 pm

From Twinkle Khanna’s new book: An elderly woman emails the CJI for a ‘nice cut-off’ age to die

Twinkle Khanna

· Dec 13, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Fiction: Kashmir is expected to join Pakistan after Partition, but King Hari Singh has other plans

Manreet Sodhi Someshwar

· Dec 12, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Fiction: A teacher resists orders to teach false history to students in turbulent 1980s’ Pakistan

Tahira Naqvi

· Dec 07, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Raj Kamal Jha’s new novel is narrated as confessions from parent to child and from child to parent

Raj Kamal Jha

· Dec 06, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Fiction: A Bengali-American woman tries to make sense of her world as the US-Iraq war unfolds

Gemini Wahhaj

· Dec 05, 2023 · 05:55 pm

Detective fiction: An intense exploration of the squalor and vice that fester in shadowy city lanes

Anita Nair

· Dec 04, 2023 · 05:30 pm

December fiction reads: Six recently published books to end the year with

Sayari Debnath

· Dec 03, 2023 · 08:30 am

‘This is Salvaged’: Decay and preservation take centrestage in Vauhini Vara’s new short stories

Sayari Debnath

· Dec 02, 2023 · 08:30 am

History reimagined: Condemned as a drunken wastrel, what was Bahadur Shah of Gujarat really like?

Kalpish Ratna

· Nov 30, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Children’s fiction: Three friends (and a dog) crack a case of an antiquity smuggling racket

Mallika Ravikumar

· Nov 28, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Italy’s far-right claim ‘The Lord of the Rings’ – but they’ve misread JRR Tolkien’s message

Tom Emanuel, The Conversation

· Nov 26, 2023 · 05:30 pm