In Jeet Thayil’s ‘Low’, a man goes on a drug-addled Bombay odyssey after his wife’s suicide

Jai Arjun Singh

· Jan 25, 2020 · 08:30 am

With ‘Low’, Jeet Thayil returns to novelising the most searing experiences in his own life

Jeet Thayil

· Jan 24, 2020 · 08:30 am

A battle in Doklam between India and China is sparked by a centuries-old secret in this novel

Ashwin Sanghi

· Jan 23, 2020 · 03:30 pm

This book of short stories is designed to expand the idea of queer beyond desire and borders

Rahul Sen

· Jan 18, 2020 · 08:30 am

An adopted daughter comes back to India looking for her biological mother in this novel

Kunal Basu

· Jan 17, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Middle-class urban women confront critical moments in their lives in these short stories

Rituparna Roy

· Jan 16, 2020 · 05:30 pm

When students rise in protest, in the pages of novels: Six books to read

Anu Kumar

· Jan 11, 2020 · 12:30 pm

‘I wrote my novel in real time’: Meena Kandasamy on her uniquely structured ‘Exquisite Cadavers’

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Jan 11, 2020 · 08:30 am

Why single, childless, contended, middle-aged women make excellent protagonists

Emily Bernhard Jackson, The Conversation

· Jan 10, 2020 · 05:30 pm

This novel is a breathless ride through love and sex, power and slavery, crime and trafficking

Nirmala Govindarajan

· Jan 08, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘The New Provincials’: A story from Sumana Roy’s new book of short fiction, ‘My Mother’s Lover’

Sumana Roy

· Jan 02, 2020 · 05:30 pm

MG Vassanji’s new novel: What a clash between romantic passion and menacing nationalism can be like

MG Vassanji

· Dec 30, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘I am in a state of wonder, certainty doesn’t convince me’: Urdu novelist Mirza Athar Baig

Akhtar Mirza

· Dec 29, 2019 · 05:30 pm

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