A reporter’s eye melds personal lives with the rhythms of the forest of Kaziranga in this novel

Suhasini Patni

· Dec 08, 2018 · 12:30 pm

‘Defiance was a strong part of it’: Why Alan Hollinghurst began writing about gay life and history

Supriya Nair

· Dec 08, 2018 · 07:00 am

Author James Frey beats Haruki Murakami to win the 2018 Bad Sex in Fiction Award

Scroll Staff

· Dec 05, 2018 · 01:10 pm

A young journalist tries to piece together the violence of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in this novel

Radhika Oberoi

· Dec 04, 2018 · 08:30 am

A woman in newly independent India struggles with her devadasi lineage in ‘The Undoing Dance’

Srividya Natarajan

· Dec 03, 2018 · 05:30 pm

This anthology of poetry and short fiction attempts to unravel what dissent means in today’s times

Suneetha Balakrishnan

· Dec 01, 2018 · 05:30 pm

‘Milk Teeth’ relives the romance of Bombay, but also exposes the hypocrisy of its people

Sushmita Sundaram

· Dec 01, 2018 · 08:30 am

How the popularity of veganism might change the language used in fiction

Shareena Z Hamzah, The Conversation

· Nov 29, 2018 · 05:30 pm

‘The Women’s Courtyard’: This novel from the 1960s resounds with its feminism over fifty years later

Khadija Mastur

· Nov 26, 2018 · 05:30 pm

‘Putting brownness against a brown background compelled me to dig deeper’: Writer Akil Kumarasamy

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Nov 25, 2018 · 12:30 pm

‘Milk Teeth’: A new novel dives into the exhilaration and inequality in 21st century Mumbai

Amrita Mahale

· Nov 19, 2018 · 08:30 am

Mythological fiction in India is finally heading off the beaten path

Urmi Chanda-Vaz

· Nov 18, 2018 · 08:30 am

From Subhas Chandra Bose’s regiment to modern Singapore, this novel follows a mother and daughter

Fehmida Zakeer

· Nov 18, 2018 · 07:00 am

To understand modern China read this crime fiction series featuring a poetry-loving detective

Amish Raj Mulmi

· Nov 17, 2018 · 08:30 am

Kamila Shamsie and Jayant Kaikini on the shortlist of the 2018 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature

Scroll Staff

· Nov 15, 2018 · 11:49 am

What readers can expect from a new anthology of Asian speculative fiction

Rajat Chaudhuri

· Nov 12, 2018 · 05:30 pm

What does a 21st century feminist do when transported to King Vidyadhar’s 11th-century court?

Jai Arjun Singh

· Nov 10, 2018 · 08:30 am

Joe D’Cruz’s ‘Ocean Rimmed World’ sails with a community of fishermen in ways no novel has

RN Joe D’Cruz

· Nov 08, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Former markets analyst Udayan Mukherjee uncovers the explosive secrets of placid lives in his novel

Udayan Mukherjee

· Nov 07, 2018 · 05:30 pm

A reader’s guide to the fiction and translations shortlists of the Crossword Book Jury Awards

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Nov 04, 2018 · 08:30 am