‘Farside’: A sister finds her brother dead. Then the possibility of a murder unravels

Jaishankar Krishnamurthy Krishna Udayasankar

· Dec 29, 2021 · 05:30 pm

An adolescent’s badminton dreams collide with communal violence in this novel

Saskya Jain

· Dec 27, 2021 · 09:30 pm

This story shows why Ruskin Bond’s supernatural fiction is some of his finest writing

Ruskin Bond

· Dec 22, 2021 · 05:30 pm

This anthology of Tamil stories lay out the rich possibilities of modern fiction in an old language

Yashasvi Arunkumar

· Dec 19, 2021 · 12:30 pm

‘Homebound’ is non-fiction masquerading as a novel about a migrant family’s plight during Covid-19

Yash Daiv

· Dec 18, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Bangladesh at 50: This anthology offers a selection of stories written in both English and Bengali

Sohana Manzoor

· Dec 16, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Qabar’: KR Meera’s magic realist fictional riff on the Babri Masjid case is now in English

KR Meera

· Dec 15, 2021 · 05:30 pm

In this entirely fictitious novel, a 29-year-old woman becomes the prime minister of India

Seema Goswami

· Dec 13, 2021 · 05:30 pm

The Grand Anicut shows historical novels need not be slowed down by immaculate research

Veena Narayan

· Dec 12, 2021 · 08:30 am

This book of stories from Nagaland plays out personal histories during intense political turmoil

Shuktara Lal

· Dec 11, 2021 · 08:30 am

‘Do Not Go to the Jungle’ is a collection of ‘socio-horror’ short stories, both macabre and tender

Shihabuddin Poithumkadavu

· Dec 09, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Dakhma’ combines Mumbai, the tower of silence, and an apartment building into an eerie novel

K Hari Kumar

· Nov 30, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Lal Salaam’: Smriti Irani’s novel is based on the killing of 76 CRPF men by Maoists in Dantewada

Smriti Zubin Irani

· Nov 29, 2021 · 08:30 am

‘Human nature doesn’t change’: Madhulika Liddle on the challenges of writing historical fiction

Abdullah Khan

· Nov 27, 2021 · 05:30 pm

This story by Tamil master Subramania Bharati features in a new anthology of Tamil short fiction

Subramania Bharati

· Nov 24, 2021 · 05:30 pm

How TV scriptwriter Sanjeev Paliwal has revived Hindi crime fiction with ‘Naina’ and ‘Pishach’

Maneesha Taneja

· Nov 21, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Zain Saeed’s debut novel asks if the American brand of freedom can mean release for some Pakistanis

Isa Ayidh

· Nov 21, 2021 · 12:30 pm

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

Saloni Sharma

· Nov 21, 2021 · 08:30 am

This 2021 translation of a 1939 novel asks whether revenge is a form of nationalism

Saurabh Sharma

· Nov 20, 2021 · 12:30 pm

‘The Odd Book of Baby Names’: A haunting sense of loss runs beneath the bleak comedy of this novel

Saloni Sharma

· Nov 13, 2021 · 05:30 pm