‘I began with the premise that the universe was a bureaucracy and god was on indefinite leave’

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Mar 07, 2020 · 11:30 am

In this noir novella, a schoolteacher sucked into a maze of deceit to save her dying husband

Piyush Jha

· Mar 05, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Crime thriller: Dead women with their hearts removed are being found. Is the Vasant Sena involved?

Uttaran Das Gupta

· Mar 03, 2020 · 08:30 am

This short story about the Nellie massacre is by Assam’s best-known ‘Miya poetry’ writer Hafiz Ahmed

Hafiz Ahmed

· Feb 28, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Two soldiers, one a Hindu and the other a Muslim, (and a squirrel) soar across the sky in this novel

Amit Majmudar

· Feb 26, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Nitasha Kaul’s novel follows the course of young lives caught up in Kashmir’s history and politics

Nitasha Kaul

· Feb 24, 2020 · 08:30 am

There’s something about Mary Higgins Clark (1927-2020): Remembering the bestselling suspense writer

Susan Haris

· Feb 22, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Boyhood, friendship and the precarious state of democracy make the novel that is ‘The Cliffhangers’

Jaya Bhattacharji Rose

· Feb 22, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘Writing the first chapter in my narrator’s voice was how I learnt who he was’: Deepa Anappara

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Feb 22, 2020 · 07:30 am

What is love between millennials like? This novel might be India’s ‘Normal People’

Arjun Nath

· Feb 17, 2020 · 05:30 pm

What makes a building go up in flames in this short story? How is it related to a secret illness?

Ipshita Nath

· Feb 16, 2020 · 08:30 am

Kashmir comes to the reader as a series of perceptions of reality in Siddhartha Gigoo’s new novel

Manisha Gangahar

· Feb 16, 2020 · 07:30 am

Indian doctors in the US confront race, tradition and personal conflicts in this Kannada novel

Guruprasad Kaginele

· Feb 12, 2020 · 05:30 pm

In this novel, a British tourist is raped in Kerala, teens are suspected, communal fires are lit

Sabin Iqbal

· Feb 11, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Citizens of the world come together and move apart in this book of stories set in Dubai

Aditi Chakraborty

· Feb 10, 2020 · 07:30 am

The stir around Jeanine Cummins’ ‘American Dirt’ reminds us who still runs the publishing world

Christine Larson, The Conversation

· Feb 07, 2020 · 05:30 pm

When the upper caste fears a Dalit’s moustache: This Malayalam novel is a work of magic and realism

S Hareesh

· Feb 05, 2020 · 05:30 pm

This coming of age novel explores the outcome of gender confusion in an orthodox family and society

Angshu Dasgupta

· Feb 03, 2020 · 08:30 am

A war photographer has to solve his own murder in this novel. But there’s too much red tape

Shehan Karunatilaka

· Jan 30, 2020 · 05:30 pm

This novel explores what can happen when a virtual digital life replaces the real one

Jaithirth Rao

· Jan 25, 2020 · 11:30 am