Crime and the single, independent woman: This novel asks uncomfortable questions

Madhumita Bhattacharyya

· Sep 07, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Darklands’: Arnav Das Sharma’s coming-of-age novel in an all-too-real Indian dystopia falters

Devarsi Ghosh

· Sep 05, 2021 · 08:30 am

The fiercely original ‘Detransition, Baby’ pushes back against heteronormative storytelling

Saurabh Sharma

· Sep 04, 2021 · 05:30 pm

In Anita Agnihotri’s ‘Mahanadi’, fiction is interrupted by facts to create a braided narrative

Isa Ayidh

· Sep 04, 2021 · 12:30 pm

‘Beyond the Stars’: Stories Qurratulain Hyder wrote in her teens

Qurratulain Hyder

· Sep 01, 2021 · 05:30 pm

A new collection presents the short fiction of Assamese writer Harekrishna Deka in all its urgency

Harekrishna Deka

· Aug 31, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘The Politician’: Finally, an English novel set in the heartland of Indian politics, Uttar Pradesh

Mohammad Asim Siddiqui

· Aug 29, 2021 · 06:09 pm

A novel that asks what a young woman’s life is like when there only men around her

Parinda Joshi

· Aug 27, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Radiant Fugitives’: This novel is told from the point of view of a child at the moment of his birth

Nawaaz Ahmed

· Aug 25, 2021 · 05:30 pm

How the decades-old Japanese honkaku murder mysteries are making a comeback in English translation

Arunima Mazumdar

· Aug 24, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Payal Dhar’s YA novel with a queer theme runs the risk of over-simplifying the complexities

Prerna Vij

· Aug 22, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Padmini of Malwa’ blurs the line between fiction and history. What does this mean for storytelling?

Isa Ayidh

· Aug 22, 2021 · 12:30 pm

‘Legal Fiction’: Chandan Pandey’s novel shows us how to tell troubling truths and call them fiction

Saloni Sharma

· Aug 14, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Shivani Sibal’s debut novel neatly slices open class equations within Delhi’s power elite

Isa Ayidh

· Aug 14, 2021 · 12:30 pm

Set in Meghalaya, ‘Funeral Nights’ is an ambitious, unconventional novel about the Khasi people

Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih

· Aug 10, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘The Startup Wife’: The wry, level gaze of a female coder probes a male world with sardonic humour

Gayathri Sankar

· Aug 08, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘China Room’: Two narrative threads seven decades apart weave this intersectional story of inequity

Saloni Sharma

· Aug 07, 2021 · 12:30 pm

‘The Ocean’s Own’: The third part of the trilogy imagines the life and exploits of King Samudragupta

Nandini Sengupta

· Aug 06, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Mapping Love’: A woman returns home from the US to her father, only to find him missing

Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari

· Aug 05, 2021 · 05:30 pm

This novel imagines the life of the goddess Sarasvati and her unique marriage to the god Brahma

Kavita Kané

· Aug 04, 2021 · 05:30 pm