‘The Body Myth’: This novel interrogates notions of normalcy in love, life, longing – and loss

Rohan Parikh

· Aug 03, 2019 · 12:30 pm

Like its country of origin, ‘Babu Bangladesh’ is a polyphonous enigma, masquerading as a novel

Arnav Das Sharma

· Aug 03, 2019 · 08:30 am

A chef unearths troubling family secrets in a post-colonial romance harking back to the British Raj

Shashi Warrier

· Jul 29, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Before you read Ottessa Moshfegh’s ‘My Year of Rest and Relaxation’, read her masterly ‘Eileen’

Rohan Parikh

· Jul 21, 2019 · 12:30 pm

How 2019’s ‘The Scent of God’ can take readers back to two older novels, also from South Asia

Rituparna Roy

· Jul 21, 2019 · 07:00 am

Classical notes and hard rock jam together in this Kolkata romance built around music

Nandita Bose

· Jul 19, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘Ginny Kalra, I loved you. Did I kill you?’ An air-hostess is found dead. Her neighbour is suspected

Pratyaksha

· Jul 17, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Why is Sally Rooney’s prizewinning second novel ‘Normal People’ on everyone’s to-be-read list?

Nishant Kauntia

· Jul 13, 2019 · 05:30 pm

July 13, 1905: A Namboodiri woman is convicted of adultery and made an outcaste. This is her story

Mini Krishnan

· Jul 13, 2019 · 08:30 am

Rewriting Jane Austen is an industry. But this version of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ in Pakistan shines

Rheea Mukherjee

· Jul 13, 2019 · 07:30 am

Bollywood radicals: This novel is a fictional chronicle of Mumbai’s independent filmmakers

Aditya Sudarshan

· Jul 12, 2019 · 05:30 pm

What if Sita had never married Ram? This novel explores an alternative life for her

Aditya Iyengar

· Jul 11, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Women lead a rebellion of peasants against the Mughal Empire in this historical novel

Amita Kanekar

· Jul 11, 2019 · 07:30 am

Amitav Ghosh’s ‘Gun Island’ is fiction for a new world. It cannot be judged by old standards

Arunava Sinha

· Jul 08, 2019 · 07:30 am

Ian McEwan’s new novel on human rights for machines is entertaining but not original on ideas

Sayantan Ghosh

· Jul 06, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Neel Patel’s short stories featuring Indian immigrants in America win with their vivid characters

Sahana Hegde

· Jul 06, 2019 · 08:30 am

This novel follows the lives of Punjabi women through Partition, the Emergency, 1984, and 9/11

Manreet Sodhi Someshwar

· Jul 04, 2019 · 07:30 am

A young widow returns to everyday life with the help of her body (and some philosophy) in this novel

Rheea Mukherjee

· Jul 03, 2019 · 07:30 am

This satirical work of fiction about Parliament might be the nearest thing to the truth

Meghnad S

· Jul 02, 2019 · 05:30 pm

This novel is a wicked study of love and affairs among the rich set of Mumbai

Shunali Khullar Shroff

· Jul 02, 2019 · 07:30 am