Despite weak storylines, Mira Sethi’s short fiction offers an engaging glimpse of urban Pakistan

Rabeea Saleem

· May 23, 2021 · 12:30 pm

Krupa Ge’s ‘What We Know About Her’ is a gentle investigation of the fault-lines of a family’s past

Gayathri Sankar

· May 22, 2021 · 12:30 pm

What happens when you inherit trauma? This debut novel imagines answers to a troubling question

Naheed Phiroze Patel

· May 21, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Remembering Bengali writer Sirsho Bandopadhyay (1967-2021) with his novel ‘Tiger Woman’

Sirsho Bandopadhyay

· May 19, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Dark Tales’: In this story from the collection, a journalist meets Death. Or does he?

Venita Coelho

· May 17, 2021 · 05:30 pm

A clever device – a narrator who is losing her memory – ignites this novel of the modern family

Isa Ayidh

· May 15, 2021 · 08:30 am

Real life urge in YA fiction: A teenager decides to go in for a body makeover

Andaleeb Wajid

· May 13, 2021 · 05:30 pm

This novel records the epic journey of a woman’s bid to break free after a bad marriage

R Vatsala

· May 12, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Throughout the novel there are sightings of the migrant, as ancient a figure as any’: Jeet Thayil

Dyuti Mishra

· May 08, 2021 · 05:30 pm

In Ambai’s new collection of short stories, a wild, unbounded energy binds death-themed narratives

Vibha Balaji

· May 08, 2021 · 12:30 pm

A teenage detective (and friends) investigate a murder in an apartment block during a lockdown

Shabnam Minwalla

· May 07, 2021 · 05:30 pm

A new novel tells the story of a djinn and his two friends, tied to the politics of Pakistan

AA Jafri

· May 05, 2021 · 05:30 pm

A young woman unearths a life-changing family secret in this debut novel

Krupa Ge

· May 03, 2021 · 07:59 pm

‘On The Street’: Read this chapter from Jhumpa Lahiri’s new novel, ‘Whereabouts’

Jhumpa Lahiri

· Apr 29, 2021 · 05:30 pm

In this debut novel: What truths will Mrs Pankajam reveal as she starts losing her memory?

Meera Rajagopalan

· Apr 28, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Easterine Kire brings oral narratives of Nagaland to literary life in this collection of stories

Easterine Kire

· Apr 27, 2021 · 08:30 am

‘Theeyoor Chronicles’: Why are there so many suicides and disappearances in the land of fire?

N Prabhakaran

· Apr 26, 2021 · 06:30 pm

‘Bombay Hangovers’: Stories that compulsively narrate the routine lives of the city’s residents

Maithreyi Karnoor

· Apr 25, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Manoranjan Byapari’s autobiographical novel is a relentless record of ordeals, with no hope in sight

Adit Shankar

· Apr 25, 2021 · 08:30 am

Can Mr Sperm Donor be Mr Right too? The pursuit of pregnancy (and love) is a comic act in this novel

Meghna Pant

· Apr 20, 2021 · 05:30 pm