‘Estuary’: Perumal Murugan calls his new novel pure fiction. But we find plenty of truths in it

Yashasvi Arunkumar

· Jul 26, 2020 · 08:30 am

The first fiction of the lockdown in India’s cities is here. Of course it’s from Shobhaa Dé

Varsha Ramachandran

· Jul 25, 2020 · 12:30 pm

Loss, death, grief, anger, violence, persecution, dread are the keywords of these stories from Assam

Anidrita Saikia

· Jul 19, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘It was difficult to imagine that people can run a trade in organs’: Benyamin on his new novel

Shevlin Sebastian

· Jul 18, 2020 · 08:30 am

Searching for great novels from Australia? Try the Miles Franklin 2020 shortlist

Jen Webb, The Conversation

· Jul 15, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Pandemic reading: Five novels to help us think about the world around us in news ways

Ti-han Chang, The Conversation

· Jul 14, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘An open letter to the novelist agonising over where to put the comma while the world collapses’

Arjun Nath

· Jul 13, 2020 · 06:30 pm

How ‘A Burning’ author Megha Majumdar found inspiration in TV shows (among other things)

Devarsi Ghosh

· Jul 11, 2020 · 05:30 pm

A young woman has a mental health breakdown that leads to a blackout. This novel is not all made up

Tazmeen Amna

· Jul 07, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘Rising Heat’: Perumal Murugan’s first novel is now available to readers in an English translation

Perumal Murugan

· Jul 06, 2020 · 05:30 pm

This novel was published in 2018, but perhaps it is best read during the pandemic in 2020

Nishtha Jaiswal

· Jul 05, 2020 · 05:30 pm

This serialised thriller is the first novel to tackle the India-China face-off as well as Covid-19

Yamini Pustake Bhalerao

· Jul 04, 2020 · 03:30 pm

Kritika Pandey is the global winner of the £ 5,000 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for this story

Kritika Pandey

· Jul 01, 2020 · 08:30 am

Who gets to make the choices that affect an individual’s life? This novel asks this crucial question

Shree Thaarshini Sriraman

· Jun 28, 2020 · 05:30 pm

This novel of Sikh lives during the Partition won the regional Commonwealth Prize 20 years ago

Oindrila Mukherjee

· Jun 27, 2020 · 05:30 pm

A pandemic wipes out most of the male population in a recent novel from South Africa

Nedine Moonsamy, The Conversation

· Jun 23, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘Swamiji’: In a mining town, a boy wants to grow taller through yoga. Can the yogi help him?

Rohit Manchanda

· Jun 22, 2020 · 05:30 pm

What we talk about when we talk about writing a novel during the pandemic

Sayantan Ghosh

· Jun 20, 2020 · 08:30 am

Can a glitzy destination wedding in India offer an authentic experience of home to an American desi?

Diksha Basu

· Jun 17, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘Chorashastra’: What if a petty thief is taught the science of opening locks with his eyes?

VJ James

· Jun 15, 2020 · 08:30 am