Mirza Athar Baig’s surreal Urdu novel in translation will be the first wild ride of fiction in 2020

Mirza Athar Baig

· Dec 25, 2019 · 05:30 pm

In this novel: What happens when a boy from a good family defies his father to go to America?

Usha KR

· Dec 24, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Three women in Kolkata are endowed with superpowers in this novel. But they have a price to pay

Rajorshi Chakraborti

· Dec 22, 2019 · 08:30 am

How do you live between two worlds, America and India? Anosh Irani’s short stories try to find out

Anosh Irani

· Dec 22, 2019 · 07:30 am

Seven cli-fi novels that show us how life might imitate art when it comes to climate change

Adeline Johns-Putra, The Conversation

· Dec 21, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Annie Zaidi’s novel paints a searing picture of how communal disharmony affects each of us

Maaz Bin Bilal

· Dec 21, 2019 · 07:30 am

This racy novel imagines married women and men caught up in ‘couple-swapping’ in Delhi

Shuma Raha

· Dec 16, 2019 · 05:30 pm

In this novel, two sisters in their twenties are starving in their flat in a city. Why?

Vandana Singh-Lal

· Dec 15, 2019 · 08:30 am

‘Menoka Has Hanged Herself’: A film historian writes a novel set in the early era of Bengali cinema

Sharmistha Gooptu

· Dec 13, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘That night, Daddy left’: In this novel, a marriage, an affair, family history, and a shot at love

Dharini Bhaskar

· Dec 08, 2019 · 08:30 am

A former hitman writes from life in this novel about his dilemma over killing a rival gangster

Agni Sreedhar

· Dec 05, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Harry Potter fandom leads four lonely people to form bonds in Keshava Guha’s debut novel

Keshava Guha

· Dec 03, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Few novels present oppression and suffering through hard stories the way Uzma Aslam Khan’s book does

Osama Siddique

· Nov 30, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Romesh Gunesekera returns to Sri Lanka, the country of his birth, with this coming-of-age novel

Romesh Gunesekera

· Nov 28, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Philip Pullman’s ‘His Dark Materials’: How to decode the story’s linguistic secrets

Simon Horobin, The Conversation

· Nov 26, 2019 · 05:30 pm

This novel records the tricky existence of a nurse whose sister cannot stop murdering her boyfriends

Suhasini Patni

· Nov 24, 2019 · 08:30 am

Meet DCP Rita Ferreira, the fictional detective who stars amongst Mumbai’s top policemen

Vish Dhamija

· Nov 21, 2019 · 05:30 pm

This novel begins on the night before the separation between the narrator and her husband

Silvia Arazi

· Nov 15, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘Robinson Crusoe’ 300 years on: Daniel Defoe’s unreliable narrative set up enduring colonial myths

Daniel Cook, The Conversation

· Nov 14, 2019 · 05:30 pm

First read: Death, love, and madness all lie at the heart of Cyrus Mistry’s new novel

Cyrus Mistry

· Nov 12, 2019 · 05:30 pm