July fiction reads: From Indian stories set in the eighth century to a present-day fictional city

Sayari Debnath

· Jul 02, 2023 · 01:30 pm

Fiction: Meera is abducted on a work visit to a factory. Who are her captors? What happens to her?

Navreet Sran

· Jun 30, 2023 · 05:30 pm

In this 19th-century tragic love story, a young Parsi woman has to choose between money and love

Dadi Edulji Taraporewala Tulsi Vatsal and Aban Mukherji

· Jun 29, 2023 · 01:30 pm

Who is the man that elderly Miu talks about? Why does she remember him despite her happy marriage?

Sharmistha Gooptu

· Jun 28, 2023 · 05:30 pm

A 1997 Assamese novel about advertising and consumerist culture has been translated into English

Anuradha Sarma Pujari Aruni Kashyap

· Jun 26, 2023 · 05:30 pm

‘Quarterlife’: An ambitious and elegant debut that takes on the Indian political landscape head-on

Shubhangi Tiwari

· Jun 25, 2023 · 07:30 am

Krishnagopal Mallick’s queer fiction in Bengali matter-of-factly topples the heteronormative order

Rajat Chaudhuri

· Jun 24, 2023 · 01:30 pm

‘Soft Animal’: A rare novel about womanhood and the unmaking of a marriage during the lockdown

Sayari Debnath

· Jun 24, 2023 · 08:30 am

This debut novel is a political bildungsroman about young people coming to grips with a new India

Devika Rege

· Jun 23, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Fiction: Two teenagers find their illusions about Delhi being a model metropolis shattered

N Dilip Kumar

· Jun 22, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Fiction: Fuelled by anxiety and depression, a former prodigy succumbs to alcoholism

Sandeep Mathew

· Jun 21, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Fiction: Can solicitor Perveen Mistry prove an employee innocent without endangering her own family?

Sujata Massey

· Jun 20, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Children’s fiction: Simi was popular at her old school but not at her new one. Will things change?

Arti Sonthalia

· Jun 19, 2023 · 05:30 pm

‘I’m a Fan’: Novel about modern dating and online influencer culture is an uncomfortable, heady read

Sayari Debnath

· Jun 17, 2023 · 08:30 am

Fiction in translation: In the forests, a man looks for his sister, who left home to join Maoists

Manoj Rupda Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar

· Jun 16, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Fiction: An older Indian man wants to marry a Japanese woman, but she sets an unusual condition

Rajesh Talwar

· Jun 15, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Fiction: The Wildlife Protection Act bans the Irular people’s trade. How will the tribe survive?

Zai Whitaker

· Jun 13, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Adventure story: A human skull in a dead man’s trunk has a code to a treasure carved on it

Hemendra Kumar Roy Jashodhara Chakraborti

· Jun 13, 2023 · 01:30 pm

This new novel imagines a world facing the terrifying consequences of single-minded devotion

Praveena Shivram

· Jun 12, 2023 · 05:30 pm

For young readers: With time running out, can Maya control her powers and protect her from herself?

Payal Dhar

· Jun 12, 2023 · 01:30 pm